[R] unable to install package ff

[Matthew Keller]

Hi Benilton & all,

I'm fairly clueless when it comes to compiling etc... never done it.
Thanks for your response. Here's the info you requested:

~/Documents/Teaching/R matthewkeller$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

~/Documents/Teaching/R matthewkeller$ gcc
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: no input files


On 11/1/07, Benilton Carvalho <bcarvalh at jhsph.edu> wrote:
> It doesn't seem that 'make' is in your path. What do you get when you
> type 'make' on your terminal? How about 'gcc'? I'm assuming XCode is
> installed.
>
> B
>
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:34 PM, "Matthew Keller" <mckellercran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
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-- 
Matthew C Keller
Asst. Professor of Psychology
University of Colorado at Boulder
www.matthewckeller.com