Hi Benilton & all, I'm fairly clueless when it comes to compiling etc... never done it. Thanks for your response. Here's the info you requested:
~/Documents/Teaching/R matthewkeller$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. ~/Documents/Teaching/R matthewkeller$ gcc powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: no input files On 11/1/07, Benilton Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.