Hi, I was about to send the email below, but eventually I got it to work. I'm sharing it anyway since others might run into similar issues.
Basically, I needed the latest macOS command line tools installed, but getting them installed was tricky. I installed Xcode 10.1 (10B61) from the Mac App Store, then installed a version of the command line tools via https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Command_Line_Tools_macOS_10.14_for_Xcode_10.1_Beta_2/Command_Line_Tools_macOS_10.14_for_Xcode_10.1_Beta_2.dmg, rebooted, then under "settings", "software update" detected that there was a newer version. Finally, I was then able to install the backports R package. Best, Leo ## Successful install: > install.packages('backports') Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6: cannot open URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES' Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘backports’ Do you want to attempt to install these from sources? (Yes/no/cancel) y installing the source package ‘backports’ trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/backports_1.1.2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 10900 bytes (10 KB) ================================================== downloaded 10 KB * installing *source* package ‘backports’ ... ** package ‘backports’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs /usr/local/clang4/bin/clang -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -Wall -g -O2 -c dotsElt.c -o dotsElt.o /usr/local/clang4/bin/clang -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -Wall -g -O2 -c dotsLength.c -o dotsLength.o /usr/local/clang4/bin/clang -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -Wall -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o /usr/local/clang4/bin/clang++ -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib -L/usr/local/clang4/lib -o backports.so dotsElt.o dotsLength.o init.o -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation ld: warning: text-based stub file /System/Library/Frameworks//CoreFoundation.framework/CoreFoundation.tbd and library file /System/Library/Frameworks//CoreFoundation.framework/CoreFoundation are out of sync. Falling back to library file for linking. installing to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library/backports/libs ** R ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded Loading required package: colorout devtools::install_github("jalvesaq/colorout") Warning message: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, : there is no package called ‘colorout’ * DONE (backports) The downloaded source packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/cx/n9s558kx6fb7jf5z_pgszgb80000gn/T/RtmpBZUipc/downloaded_packages’ > > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2018-04-05 r74542) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS 10.14.1 Matrix products: default BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.6.0 tools_3.6.0 tcltk_3.6.0 ## Older email: Hi, With Bioconductor 3.9 now being live, I got a few emails about some of my packages which I wanted to look into. For that I tried installing R 3.6 with all my current R 3.5 packages. I quickly ran into problems trying to install devtools. Basically, the backports package is not available as a binary and the compilation from source fails because it can't find an stdlib.h file. I also recently updated my Mac with the new OS as well as the latest Xcode (which in theory now comes with the command line tools that should include that stdlib.h file). I also installed the latest command line tools but still ran into the same issue. Has anyone else seen this issue and resolved it? If so, what step and I missing? Thanks, Leo > install.packages('backports') Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6: cannot open URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES' Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘backports’ Do you want to attempt to install these from sources? (Yes/no/cancel) y installing the source package ‘backports’ trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/backports_1.1.2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 10900 bytes (10 KB) ================================================== downloaded 10 KB * installing *source* package ‘backports’ ... ** package ‘backports’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs /usr/local/clang4/bin/clang -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -Wall -g -O2 -c dotsElt.c -o dotsElt.o In file included from dotsElt.c:1: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/R.h:55:11: fatal error: 'stdlib.h' file not found # include <stdlib.h> /* Not used by R itself, but widely assumed in packages */ ^~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. make: *** [dotsElt.o] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘backports’ * removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library/backports’ The downloaded source packages are in ‘/private/var/folders/cx/n9s558kx6fb7jf5z_pgszgb80000gn/T/Rtmp2hfmV8/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages("backports") : installation of package ‘backports’ had non-zero exit status > > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2018-04-05 r74542) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS 10.14.1 Matrix products: default BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.6.0 tools_3.6.0 tcltk_3.6.0 https://github.com/catboost/catboost/issues/137 lead me to https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/104296 and searching for "macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14. pkg" lead me to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51274905/brew-install-on-mojave >From https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ I downloaded and installed https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Command_Line_Tools_macOS_10.14_for_Xcode_10.1_Beta_2/Command_Line_Tools_macOS_10.14_for_Xcode_10.1_Beta_2.dmg I also ran the following: $ brew update $ brew doctor ## Plus some things that brew doctor recommended (that don't have anything to do with stdlib.h) $ brew upgrade gcc ==> Upgrading 1 outdated package: gcc 6.2.0 -> 8.2.0 ## more output deleted Ohhhhh, now "Software Update" is noticing a new Command Line Tools version. (and then that's when it worked...) _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
