[R] Installation of bigmemory fails

Forafo San ppv.grps at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 22:53:16 CEST 2011


Hello All,
I tried to intall the bigmemory package from a CRAN mirror site and
received the following output while installing. Any idea what's going
on and how to fix it? The system details are provided below.

--------------------- begin error messages -----------------------
* installing *source* package 'bigmemory' ...
  checking for Sun Studio compiler...no
  checking for Darwin...yes
** libs
g++45 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include     -fpic  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc45 -c B\
igMatrix.cpp -o BigMatrix.o
g++45 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include     -fpic  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc45 -c S\
haredCounter.cpp -o SharedCounter.o
g++45 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include     -fpic  -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc45 -c b\
igmemory.cpp -o bigmemory.o
bigmemory.cpp: In function 'bool TooManyRIndices(index_type)':
bigmemory.cpp:40:27: error: 'powl' was not declared in this scope
*** Error code 1

Stop in /tmp/Rtmpxwe3p4/R.INSTALL4f539336/bigmemory/src.
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'bigmemory'
* removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/bigmemory'

The downloaded packages are in
        '/tmp/RtmpMZCOVp/downloaded_packages'
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making packages.html  ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages("bigmemory") :
  installation of package 'bigmemory' had non-zero exit status
--------------------- end error messages -------------------------
It's a 64-bit FreeBSD 7.2 system running R version 2-13.0.
Thanks,
Premal



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