Plus one of the duties of package managers is to make sure that they build and pass CRAN checks. Doing that with a non standard environment seems a bit risky.
At the moment I can’t get anything to build on R-Devel which is making life difficult and I may raise a question if it still isn’t working when I’ve finished with the new experience that is online teaching. > On 20 May 2020, at 10:49 am, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On 5/19/20 1:46 PM, Yoshihiko Baba via R-SIG-Mac wrote: >> Adelchi, >> >> Why don’t you try Fink version of R? >> >> Fink build mnormt on R 4.0 as well (although it is experimental). >> https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/623 > > > This should be considered contrary to recommended practice: From the > page for macOS tools that was cited by the OP we see: > > > "Although it is possible to compile R using tools from other package > managers such as Homebrew, MacPorts or Fink, such binaries are by > definition incompatible with macOS native libraries and applications. If > you choose one of those package managers, make sure you > compile/everything/using those tools including R and all packages and > libraries you intend to use." > > > I think it should have been offered as advice to only be followed by > persons with great experience in compiling and building packages on Macs. > > Best; > > David > >> >> Fink allows you to install different versions of R (3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2 >> and 3.1). >> >> For different versions, CRAN packages are separately installed >> (/sw/lib/R/3.6/site-library and so on). >> >> >>> 2020/05/19 22:45、Adelchi Azzalini <azzal...@stat.unipd.it>のメール: >>> >>> Hi. >>> In essence, my problem is that I cannot install a package which requires >>> Fortran-77 compilation on my Mac. >>> >>> More in detail, this is my own package 'mnormt' which exists on CRAN since >>> 2006; it is currently at version 1.5-7. It has been developed in successive >>> versions on a Linux machine, where it compiles with no problems. The macOS >>> and MS-windows versions are created on CRAN, where it passes all pertaining >>> checks. >>> >>> Now, in the new pandemic world, I need create a new version of the package, >>> but working from home, hence using my Mac laptop instead of the Linux >>> desktop as in the past. Unfortunately, compilation or loading does not >>> work. If I run >>> >>> R CMD check mnormt_1.5-7.tar.gz >>> >>> first I get a bunch of warning messages such as >>> >>> Warning: Possible change of value in conversion from REAL(8) to INTEGER(4) >>> .... [-Wconversion] >>> Warning: ‘lxchng’ may be used uninitialized in this function >>> [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] >>> Warning: Label 10 at (1) defined but not used [-Wunused-label] >>> >>> and finally it crashes with >>> >>> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘mnormt’: >>> .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'mnormt', details: >>> call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) >>> error: unable to load shared object >>> '/Users/aa/SW-aa/Pkg-mnormt/mnormt.Rcheck/00LOCK-mnormt/00new/mnormt/libs/mnormt.so': >>> >>> dlopen(/Users/aa/SW-aa/Pkg-mnormt/mnormt.Rcheck/00LOCK-mnormt/00new/mnormt/libs/mnormt.so, >>> 6): Symbol not found: ___addtf3 >>> Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/libquadmath.0.dylib >>> Expected in: /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s_x86_64.1.dylib >>> in /usr/local/lib/libquadmath.0.dylib >>> Error: loading failed >>> >>> Needless to say, I have no idea what this "addtf3" is or it should be. >>> There is no such a symbol in the Fortran code. >>> >>> I believe to have installed all ingredients indicated at >>> https://mac.r-project.org/tools/ >>> See the list below with details about my system and other installed tools. >>> >>> Any suggestions for sorting this out? >>> >>> Adelchi Azzalini >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> Installation info: >>> >>> R> R.version >>> _ >>> platform x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 >>> arch x86_64 >>> os darwin17.0 >>> system x86_64, darwin17.0 >>> status >>> major 4 >>> minor 0.0 >>> year 2020 >>> month 04 >>> day 24 >>> svn rev 78286 >>> language R >>> version.string R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24) >>> nickname Arbor Day >>> >>> --- macOS Mojave 10.14.6 >>> >>> --- Xcode version 11.3.1 >>> >>> --- Fortran >>> >>> [aa@mac-2013:~] gfortran -v >>> Using built-in specs. >>> COLLECT_GCC=gfortran >>> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gfortran/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin18/8.2.0/lto-wrapper >>> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18 >>> Configured with: ../gcc-8.2.0/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gfortran >>> --with-gmp=/Users/fx/devel/gcc/build_package/deps >>> --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --build=x86_64-apple-darwin18 >>> --disable-multilib --with-native-system-header-dir=/usr/include >>> --with-sysroot=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk >>> Thread model: posix >>> gcc version 8.2.0 (GCC) >>> >>> [aa@mac-2013:~] echo $PATH >>> .:/Users/aa/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/local/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/gfortran/bin >>> >>> -- other tools indicated at https://mac.r-project.org/tools/ >>> xz-5.2.5/ is installed >>> PCRE2 10.34 built with --disable-jit >>> bzip2 Version 1.0.6 is installed >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
