I think the operative words here are "brew install". I.e., this is a homebrew installation, and thus nothing to do with CRAN.
Nothing wrong with homebrew as far as R Core and the CRAN team knows, we just don't support it, so you have to hope for response from other homebrew users. - Peter D. > On 5 Feb 2025, at 14:05 , J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > That looks like the dependency on nlopt for nloptr (used by several of the > solvers) was somehow missing. There is SUPPOSED to be a check of what is > installed > and a warning issued, but possibly one got missed. Even some base packages > do sometimes need the external libraries manually installed, and I find I'm > doing that after various OS updates or resets when the long term support > runs out. > > Some updates and minor extensions to optimx, mostly convenience features or > checks that dependencies available, are on the github version, which is a bit > ahead of CRAN (https://github.com/nashjc/optimx). I find doing all the checks > and revdeps for the package now getting heavy enough that it is worth waiting > a bit unless there's a critical bug, which I don't think there has been for > a long while. > > I don't have a Mac, and am currently away from home (actually in Nice, FR for > a couple of weeks), but would be interested in knowing if the github version > needs an independent install of nlopt on Mac, or indeed on any platform. > > Cheers, > > John Nash > maintainer, optimx > > > On 2025-02-05 04:46, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote: >> Dear R-help members >> Since this morning (5/2/2025), I get an error when I try to load optimx >> package. I solve it and I send my solution but if someone has a better idea >> or understand what's happened, I will be most happy to know. >> MacOSX 15.3 >> R 4.4.2 >> nlopt installed using >> brew install nlopt >> Here are the steps to produce the error and a solution to solve it. Some >> parts are in French. I don't know how to "ask" to R to not use French for >> some system messages. >> Marc >> > library("optimx") >> Erreur : le chargement du package ou de l'espace de noms a échoué pour >> ‘optimx’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : >> impossible de charger l'objet partagé >> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library/nloptr/libs/ >> nloptr.so' : >> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so, >> 0x0006): Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/nlopt/lib/libnlopt.0.dylib >> Referenced from: <2A7DAFE2-8123-3555-9569-F28214328E47> >> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/ >> library/nloptr/libs/nloptr.so >> Reason: tried: '/opt/homebrew/opt/nlopt/lib/libnlopt.0.dylib' (no such >> file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/ >> opt/homebrew/opt/nlopt/lib/libnlopt.0.dylib' (no such file), >> '/opt/homebrew/opt/nlopt/lib/libnlopt.0.dylib' (no such file), >> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib/libnlopt.0.dylib' (no such >> file), '/Library/Java/ >> JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.18+10/Contents/Home/lib/server/libnlopt.0.d >> It seems that the file libnlopt.0.dylib is not find. >> When I check in this folder, indeed it is not present: >> √ lib % cd /opt/homebrew/opt/nlopt/lib >> √ lib % ls >> cmake libnlopt.1.dylib pkgconfig >> libnlopt.1.0.0.dylib libnlopt.dylib >> I create a symlink: >> √ lib % sudo ln -s libnlopt.1.dylib libnlopt.0.dylib >> Password: >> √ lib % ls -al >> total 880 >> drwxr-xr-x 8 marcgirondot admin 256 5 fév 10:28 . >> drwxr-xr-x 15 marcgirondot admin 480 5 fév 10:26 .. >> drwxr-xr-x 3 marcgirondot admin 96 4 fév 19:29 cmake >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 16 5 fév 10:28 libnlopt.0.dylib -> >> libnlopt.1.dylib >> -r--r--r-- 1 marcgirondot admin 447936 5 fév 10:26 libnlopt.1.0.0.dylib >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 marcgirondot admin 20 4 fév 19:29 libnlopt.1.dylib -> >> libnlopt.1.0.0.dylib >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 marcgirondot admin 16 4 fév 19:29 libnlopt.dylib -> >> libnlopt.1.dylib >> drwxr-xr-x 3 marcgirondot admin 96 5 fév 10:26 pkgconfig >> and I reinstall optimx from source >> > remove.packages("optimx") >> Elimination du package de >> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library’ >> (car ‘lib’ n'est pas spécifié) >> > install.packages("optimx", type="source") >> essai de l'URL 'https://cran.irsn.fr/src/contrib/optimx_2024-12.2.tar.gz' >> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2259525 bytes (2.2 MB) >> ================================================== >> downloaded 2.2 MB >> * installing *source* package ‘optimx’ ... >> ** package ‘optimx’ correctement décompressé et sommes MD5 vérifiées >> ** using staged installation >> ** R >> ** inst >> ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading >> ** help >> *** installing help indices >> ** building package indices >> ** installing vignettes >> ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location >> ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location >> ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path >> * DONE (optimx) >> Les packages source téléchargés sont dans >> ‘/private/tmp/Rtmpsb2lpE/downloaded_packages’ >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
