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Ema
Ema

Reputation: 23

How can I install packages on R from CRAN (on MacOS)?

I'm having problems at installing the package ape from CRAN on macOS by using the following code line: install.packages("ape").

I get the following outputs:

ld: warning: directory not found for option ' L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2' ld: library not found for -lgfortran clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I've tried to troubleshoot the problem by installing Xcode using the following code in the terminal: xcode-select--install. It didn't help tough.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 771

Answers (1)

Martin Morgan
Martin Morgan

Reputation: 46886

An easy solution is to install the binary version if available; generally for new users this is the best strategy. I guess you have

> getOption("pkgType")
[1] "source"

and you would like to instead use

options(pkgType = "mac.binary.el-capitan")

See ?options for some more detail; see ?.Rprofile for setting this option on startup.

Upvotes: 5

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