Hi Michael, Thanks for your response. Using the binary seems to solve partially. I am able to install (I think!) RCurl but not able to load the library. Below is the info you required and the error while loading RCurl.
*> sessionInfo()* R version 2.13.2 (2011-09-30) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base *> install.packages("RCurl")* trying URL ' http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.13/RCurl_1.7-0.tgz ' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 680511 bytes (664 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 664 Kb The downloaded packages are in /var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpYE7JLJ/downloaded_packages *> library(RCurl)* Loading required package: bitops Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so': dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so, 6): Library not loaded: @rpath/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/lib/libR.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so Reason: image not found Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RCurl' Warning: dependency Rcompression is not available also installing the dependency XML Seems like now I need 'Rcompression'. I googled this and found a Rcompression package 'zlib' (http://www.omegahat.org/Rcompression/). However the site says that "zlib for Mac OS X: zlib is already included as part of Mac OS X". I am wondering what to do? To my bliss, why did the previous R version oblivious of these issues! Really appreciate any hep. SIncerely, Hari On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:33 PM, R. Michael Weylandt < michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, you probably need some sort of C compiler, but why can't you just > download the appropriate binary directly? I just did on OS X 10.5.8 > (admittedly for R 2.13.2, not 2.14) with no problems. The output of > > sessionInfo() > install.packages("RCurl") > > if you don't mind please. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Hari Easwaran <hariharan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am trying to install a package from bioconductor (biomaRt) for which I > > need the RCurl package. I get the following main error message when I try > > to install RCurl (and its dependencies). > > > > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH > > See `config.log' for more details. > > ERROR: configuration failed for package RCurl > > > > I searched for possible solutions and read in some online mailing list > that > > I might have to install Xcode to install the gcc compiler. I am not sure > if > > I should do this because I have installed RCurl in previous versions of R > > without any problems (on this same computer). I upgraded to the latest R > (R > > version 2.14.0) and faced this problem. So I downgraded to R version > 2.13.2 > > and still cannot install RCurl. I think my last successful installation > of > > RCurl was with R version 2.11. > > > > Following is the complete error message and my R version details. > > I really appreciate any help or suggestions. > > > > Sincerely, > > Hari > > > > trying URL ' > > http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/XML_3.4-3.tar.gz' > > Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 906364 bytes (885 Kb) > > opened URL > > ================================================== > > downloaded 885 Kb > > > > trying URL ' > > http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/src/contrib/RCurl_1.7-0.tar.gz' > > Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 813252 bytes (794 Kb) > > opened URL > > ================================================== > > downloaded 794 Kb > > > > * installing *source* package XML ... > > checking for gcc... no > > checking for cc... no > > checking for cl.exe... no > > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH > > See `config.log' for more details. > > ERROR: configuration failed for package XML > > * removing > > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/XML > > * installing *source* package RCurl ... > > checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config > > checking for gcc... no > > checking for cc... no > > checking for cc... no > > checking for cl... no > > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH > > See `config.log' for more details. > > ERROR: configuration failed for package RCurl > > * removing > > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl > > * restoring previous > > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/RCurl > > > > The downloaded packages are in > > > /private/var/folders/a6/a60JdPfrHC0ZAizZWyNM-E+++TI/-Tmp-/RtmpVjBcvX/downloaded_packages > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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