Thanks Brian, thanks everybody. I think I can easily understand the difficulties you are speaking about: R is a huge project running in a massive amount of different, and from time to time, fancy environments. I is by no means easy to keep all packages smoothly running in all and every installation around the World! For me, maintaining CRAN is a big responsibility and of extreme difficulty!
But I'm not able to understand yet what is the difference between using the R Package Installer (using CRAN repository as package repository), running in this case R Mac OS X 10.5.8 with this R installation... R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows" Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) And downloading XML_3.9-4.tgz from http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/index.html and installing it by submitting sudo R CMD INSTALL XML_3.93-0.tgz. The process using R Package Installer (CRAN binaries as repositoy) doesn't lead to a functional XML packages and downloading and installing it does lead to running XML packages both in i386 and x86_64 architectures. Sorry for asking once again, but, please, where am I lost with this issue? Thanks! >________________________________________ >From: r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org [r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org] On >Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley [rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] >Sent: 28 September 2012 09:21 >To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’ > >With a package such as XML available from multiple repositories, you >have to be very precise what you are talking about. > >On CRAN, there is a source package for version 3.9-4. That can be >compiled for multiple architectures on a Mac, and there are such >binaries on CRAN. > >It only works in a UTF-8 locale, and hence there has needed to be a >modified version for Windows, on CRANextras. > >However, the home for XML is www.omegahat.org. There are two different >versions there, and neither work on Linux. (3.93-0 in the Omegahat >repository and http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/XML_3.94-0.tar.gz.) > >The CRAN team have been trying for weeks to sort this out, but the XML >maintainer is barely responsive. > >With a CRAN build of R for MacOS, you get binary packages by default, >either from the command-line or from R.app. You get those of the >achitecture(s) which were built: this is normally both ix64 and x64_86 >(and perhaps ppc) but for a few tens of packages the person in charge >(for CRAN, Simon Urbanek) needs to set up exceptions. As packages do >change, sometimes the need to add an exception pops up unexpectedly. > On 28/09/2012 07:05, ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es wrote: > Hi! >> ________________________________________ >> From: Simon Urbanek [simon.urba...@r-project.org] >> Sent: 28 September 2012 02:24 >> To: Rodriguez Fernandez, Ricardo Julio >> Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’ > >> On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:25 PM, <ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to confirm I understand how packages are installed and manage in >>> R to be able to better interpret error/warning messages. >>> >>> In a Mac OS X installation of R I get this error: >>> >>>> require(XML) >>> Loading required package: XML >>> Failed with error: ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’ >>> >>> But the graphical interface R Package Installer says that version 3.9-4 >>> is installed. >>> >> >> It is installed, but only for 32-bit and you are trying to load it in 64-bit >> R. >> >> >>> Please, where am I wrong? >> >> Use 32-bit R or if you want to use XML in 64-bit R, you have to compile it >> for 64-bit. AFAICS XML currently doesn't >> pass checks on any platform, so there are no binaries and you have to >> compile it from sources. If you want both 32-bit and 64-bit > you'll have to >> use --merge-multiarch INSTALL option or use the two-step process described >> in the Mac FAQ. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon > > Following other replies to this thread this is what I get here after > installing from the command line without switches the XML binary available at > CRAN... > > Package: XML > Version: 3.9-4 > ReleaseDate: 2012/01/30 > ... > Repository: CRAN > Date/Publication: 2012-01-31 07:37:18 > Built: R 2.15.0; universal-apple-darwin9.8.0; 2012-03-31 00:12:17 UTC; unix > Archs: i386, ppc, x86_64 > > So, it seems that i386 and x86_64 are available by installing that binary. > Please, what am I misunderstanding here? > > Thanks for your help! > > Ricardo > >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>>> sessionInfo() >>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) >>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) >>> >>> locale: >>> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] graphics grDevices utils datasets stats methods base >>> >>> other attached packages: >>> [1] foreign_0.8-50 >>> >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>> [1] tools_2.15.1 >>>> >>> > > Nota: A información contida nesta mensaxe e os seus posibles documentos > adxuntos é privada e confidencial e está dirixida únicamente ó seu > destinatario/a. 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