Hi David, My question was not about installing r-devel on Mac, but whether there are plans on having the packages available on CRAN web-site. I'm asking this, because Bioconductor build system depends on availability of OS X binaries of some packages on CRAN.
-- Alexey On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 8:01 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Alexey Sergushichev <alserg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Are there any plans on having package build for r-devel on CRAN? I > > understand it's far from the highest priority but it would be good to > have > > any estimates. I'm aware of several packages on Bioconoductor-devel that > > fail builds due to absence of binary versions of some packages ( > > http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc- > LATEST/ChemmineR/merida2-buildsrc.html > > http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc- > LATEST/cbaf/merida2-buildsrc.html > > ). > > > > Thanks, > > Alexey Sergushichev > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > The fact that you post in HTML and make no effort to describe your setup > makes me suspect you may also have missed the instructions about installing > XCode and configuring R for compiling source packages. This can still be > done with the binary distribution versions of R and R.app, and do not > require that you build R from sources. See the CRAN-Mac-tools page: > > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/ > > It used to be the case that one needed Xcode and Command Line Tools > installed. (I do have them.) I cannot tell from the current Mac-devel page > whether that is still the case. I have a current version of R running in El > Capitan. This is my ~/.R/Makevars file: > > # created by rstan at Thu Mar 19 11:26:15 2015 > CXXFLAGS = -mtune=core2 -O3 $(LTO) #set_by_rstan > R_XTRA_CPPFLAGS = -I$(R_INCLUDE_DIR) #set_by_rstan > CC=/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang > CXX=/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang++ > LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/clang4/libI > > I just executed the following commands in the R.app environment. > > source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";) > biocLite() > # declined the offer to update packages > biocLite(c("ChemmineR"), type="source", dependencies=TRUE) > > It then tried to install all the dependencies (failing for ChemmineOB > because the OpenBabel system requirement was not met) and got a report of > success with ChemmineR and the package was capable of loading. So I've > successfully tested my theory that the only barriers to successful > compilation of ChemmineR from source are lack of knowledge of the R and > Bioconductor ecosystem (and lack of one external package.) I'm not that > interested in getting a full package installed, so haven't taken the time > to install OpenBabel and recompile ChemmineOB. > > > Hope this helps; > David. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
