[R] unable to install package ff

[Matthew Keller]

Hi all,

I've had one of my most miserable R weeks in memory. I'm trying to
deal with huge datasets (>1GB each) but am running up against those
pesky memory limits. The libraries filehash and g.data are not very
suitable for what I need. I haven't gotten into the sql thing yet.
Most recently I've been trying to install the new package ff (not yet
on the CRAN repository). I can't find emails of the folks developing
ff, so I was hoping someone here might have an idea how to deal with
this.

>From http://wsopuppenkiste.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/ff/ I've downloaded
the ff_1.0.tar.gz.

> install.packages(pkgs="ff_1.0.tar.gz",repos=NULL,destdir="/temp",type="source")
<much output omitted>
g++-4.0: installation problem, cannot exec
'i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0': No such file or directory
make: *** [Error.o] Error 255
chmod: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/library/ff/libs/i386/*:
No such file or directory
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'ff'

So it cannot find i686-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0. What the hell is that?
A compiler I suppose. I HAVE installed the Mac OS developer tools. I
have an MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM and am using the 32bit R:

sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
i386-apple-darwin8.9.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
"methods"   "base"


Any ideas how to get ff to install properly on my system? Most
appreciative of any advice!

Matt


-- 
Matthew C Keller
Asst. Professor of Psychology
University of Colorado at Boulder
www.matthewckeller.com