On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, stefano iacus wrote:
I'm getting this error which seems to be known issue:
library("quantreg") Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) : couldn't find function "lazyLoad" In addition: Warning message: package quantreg was built under R version 2.0.1 Error in library("quantreg") : .First.lib failed
However, on CRAN, the Mac OS X "1.9" directory is just a symlink to the Mac OS X "2.0" directory - there is no separate directory for 1.9 packages as best I can tell.this is not true, have a look at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/2.0 http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/1.9 they are just different (and 1.9 has not been updated since oct 2004)
Aah, the mirrors are very slow, so I only tried one. cran.r-project doesn't show the problem, so now I've got a R 1.9 package - thanks!
http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu
http://www.bioconductor.org/CRAN
do not have the problem either.
but:
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
has this problem. Even if you go directly to:
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/1.9/
The index lists "2.0." The way I got to it was by going from the R homepage CRAN->http://lib.stat.cmu.edu->Mac OS X->1.9
<snip build errors>I did also try building the source package, but that failed. I emailed the packager asking for help, but it can't hurt to ask here as well. The problem is that the package build can't find -lfrtbegin. On Mac OS X this comes from fink so it is installed in /sw. So I untarred the package and edited Makevars to tell the build to look at -L/sw/lib, but interestingly enough that only worked for one gcc line, and not the final linking stage. As you can see below, the final linking stage is also looking for /usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin6.6/3.4 which doesn't exist. I'm not sure where it is getting that from. I can only guess that autoconf or something is messed up on this machine:
this problem comes from the fact that you have system configured differently from how the R binaries has been built, so config files distributed with it reflect these differences (in particular this folder is relative to the gcc shipped with OS X 10.2, you should replace it with the one pointing to the right gcc for your system)
That makes good sense. I see there is an Aqua version out now that my users might like.
My suggestions is to build R from sources as well following the notes on the Faq for Mac OS X or asking to R-sig-Mac.
I'm setting up 2.0 in parallel on a separate machine, so I will do that, and whenever my user is ready I'll upgrade her R install.
In any case, you should give us more details on the version of R you are using, the OS X version, etc to leave us be helpful.
OS X ver 10.3.8 R 1.9.1
Although you've already answered all my questions. :-)
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