It doesn't seem that 'make' is in your path. What do you get when you type 'make' on your terminal? How about 'gcc'? I'm assuming XCode is installed.
B On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:34 PM, "Matthew Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had one of my most miserable R weeks in memory. I'm trying to > deal with huge datasets (>1GB each) but am running up against those > pesky memory limits. The libraries filehash and g.data are not very > suitable for what I need. I haven't gotten into the sql thing yet. > Most recently I've been trying to install the new package ff (not yet > on the CRAN repository). I can't find emails of the folks developing > ff, so I was hoping someone here might have an idea how to deal with > this. > >> From http://wsopuppenkiste.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/ff/ I've downloaded > the ff_1.0.tar.gz. > >> install.packages(pkgs="ff_1.0.tar.gz",repos=NULL,destdir="/ >> temp",type="source") > <much output omitted> > g++-4.0: installation problem, cannot exec > 'i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0': No such file or directory > make: *** [Error.o] Error 255 > chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ > library/ff/libs/i386/*: > No such file or directory > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'ff' > > So it cannot find i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0. What the hell is that? > A compiler I suppose. I HAVE installed the Mac OS developer tools. I > have an MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM and am using the 32bit R: > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) > i386-apple-darwin8.9.1 > > locale: > 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" > > > Any ideas how to get ff to install properly on my system? Most > appreciative of any advice! > > Matt > > > -- > Matthew C Keller > Asst. Professor of Psychology > University of Colorado at Boulder > www.matthewckeller.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.