Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R-pkg-devel] 'Default' macos (x86) download URL now gone?

2023-04-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/04/2023 11:25 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: The URL ${CRAN}/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg is in fairlt widespread use. A quick Google query [1] reveals about 1.1k hits. And it happens to be used too in a CI job a colleague noticed failing yesterday. The bin/macosx/ page now prominently display

[R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing RUcausal library on MAC

2023-04-23 Thread varin sacha via R-SIG-Mac
R-experts, What is going wrong? At the end of this page there is the installation command : https://gitlab.science.ru.nl/gbucur/RUcausal/-/blob/master/README.Rmd Working with a MAC, I have tried to install the RUcausal library (copy and paste the installation command). It is written that the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing RUcausal library on MAC

2023-04-23 Thread kjbeath
It looks like you don’t have fortran. An installer can be obtained from https://mac.r-project.org/tools/ Ken > On 24 Apr 2023, at 7:05 am, varin sacha via R-SIG-Mac > wrote: > > R-experts, > > What is going wrong? > > At the end of this page there is the installation command : > https://git

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing RUcausal library on MAC

2023-04-23 Thread Simon Urbanek
Varin, you're missing the Fortran compiler which the package requires. To make the life a bit easier on you, upgrade to R 4.3.0 and then install GNU Fortran from https://mac.r-project.org/tools/ If you don't want to upgrade R then you'll need the Fortran from here: https://github.com/R-macos/g

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 'Default' macos (x86) download URL now gone?

2023-04-23 Thread Simon Urbanek
Dirk, thanks - the problem is that there is not a single installer package (for several years now), so that URL is ambiguous. Whether the missing link is a good or bad depends on how it is used. I would argue that any link to that URL is inherently bad, because there is no way of knowing that t