[Rcpp-devel] Problems getting RInside to work on OS X

JJ Allaire jj.allaire at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 10:18:46 CET 2013


I believe that the problem is that gcc has been removed from command line
tools on OS X Mavericks:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19533220/cannot-install-r-package-from-source-in-mac-osx-maverick




On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:46 AM, <romain at r-enthusiasts.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What does this give you:
>
> $ R CMD config CXX
> $ R CMD config CXXFLAGS
>
> What happens in an R console when you type:
>
>  require(devtools)
>> has_devel()
>>
>
> Romain
>
> Le 2013-10-27 06:02, Claymore M a écrit :
>
>> I am trying to get RInside to run on my mac (Mavericks). (I was able
>> to get RInline running no problem using Ubuntu at work; "it just
>> worked" with none of the hassle outlined below).
>>
>> I downloaded the package and tried to run:
>>
>> "make rinside_sample0" from within the standard folder of RInline.
>>
>> This produced Error1.
>>
>> _Among the first few lines of the many errors, I got:_
>>
>>
>> _/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Versions/3.0/**
>> Resources/library/RInside/**include/RInsideCommon.h:34:18:
>> error: string: No such file or directory_
>>
>>
>> _/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Versions/3.0/**
>> Resources/library/RInside/**include/RInsideCommon.h:35:18:
>> error: vector: No such file or directory_
>>
>>
>> _/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Versions/3.0/**
>> Resources/library/RInside/**include/RInsideCommon.h:36:20:
>> error: iostream: No such file or directory_
>>
>>
>> Why does the make file not find the "base" headers for iostream,
>> string, vector from C++? I am guessing I need to tell the compiler
>> where to find these files? How would I do this, presumably from
>> editing the make file? Are there any guides for how to do this etc?
>> Unfortunately, with no background in working with compilers when
>> errors pop up, I wouldn't know where to start at this point.
>>
>> I found this post suggesting I need to compile RInside from source on
>> the mac.
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/12684408/rinside-**
>> linking-on-mac-osx<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12684408/rinside-linking-on-mac-osx>
>> [1]
>>
>>
>> I then tried compiling RInside from source, but got these errors:
>>
>> _* installing to library
>> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Versions/3.0/**Resources/library’_
>>
>> _* installing *source* package ‘RInside’ ..._
>>
>> _** package ‘RInside’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked_
>>
>> _** libs_
>>
>> _/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Resources/bin/**Rscript
>> tools/RInsideAutoloads.r > RInsideAutoloads.h_
>>
>> _/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Resources/bin/**Rscript
>> tools/RInsideEnvVars.r > RInsideEnvVars.h_
>>
>> _llvm-g++-4.2 -arch x86_64
>>
>> -I/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Resources/include -DNDEBUG -I.
>> -I../inst/include/ -I/usr/local/include
>>
>> -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.**framework/Versions/3.0/**
>> Resources/library/Rcpp/**include"
>> -fPIC -mtune=core2 -g -O2 -c MemBuf.cpp -o MemBuf.o_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:23:20: error: iostream: No such file or directory_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:24:19: error: cstdlib: No such file or directory_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:25:18: error: string: No such file or directory_
>>
>> _In file included from MemBuf.cpp:27:_
>>
>> _../inst/include/MemBuf.h:25: error: ‘string’ in namespace
>> ‘std’ does not name a type_
>>
>> _../inst/include/MemBuf.h:32: error: expected unqualified-id before
>> ‘&’ token_
>>
>> _../inst/include/MemBuf.h:32: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’
>> before ‘&’ token_
>>
>> _../inst/include/MemBuf.h: In member function ‘const char*
>> MemBuf::getBufPtr()’:_
>>
>> _../inst/include/MemBuf.h:33: error: ‘buffer’ was not declared in
>> this scope_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp: In constructor ‘MemBuf::MemBuf(int)’:_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:34: error: class ‘MemBuf’ does not have any field
>> named ‘buffer’_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:35: error: ‘buffer’ was not declared in this scope_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp: In member function ‘void MemBuf::resize()’:_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:39: error: ‘buffer’ was not declared in this scope_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp: In member function ‘void MemBuf::rewind()’:_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:43: error: ‘buffer’ was not declared in this scope_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp: At global scope:_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:46: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘&’ token_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:46: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘&’
>> token_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp: In member function ‘void MemBuf::add()’:_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:47: error: ‘buf’ was not declared in this scope_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:48: error: ‘buffer’ was not declared in this scope_
>>
>> _MemBuf.cpp:51: error: ‘buffer’ was not declared in this scope_
>>
>> _make: *** [MemBuf.o] Error 1_
>>
>> _ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘RInside’_
>>
>>
>> Again, something about iostream missing etc.
>>
>> Any advice on the steps for what I need to do to fix this problem
>> would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Clay
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/12684408/rinside-**
>> linking-on-mac-osx<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12684408/rinside-linking-on-mac-osx>
>>
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