On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:59 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On 10/03/2012 00:53, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
>> Oh -- perhaps I was ambiguous and I apologize for any confusion that
>> caused: I meant to just build the package himself from source so that
>> it would match his architecture, hence why gfortran wouldn't be needed
>> as it would to build R.
>> 
>> Incidentally, doesn't CRAN usually support one minor version back? It
>> seems that it checks for "R-oldrel" (which appears to currently be
>> 2.13.2) -- I don't know if the patch releases are ever incompatible,
>> though I doubt so since things seem to divide into R x.y folders,
>> rather than R x.y.z in the CRAN servers.
> 
> Yes, that's pretty much the policy.  But with 2.15.0 alpha, 2.14.x is now 
> 'one minor release back', and building for 2.13.x has been switched off (it 
> seems to have been for Macs on Feb 10, a little earlier than I would have 
> expected

On the Mac side we never build more than two releases so whenever we start 
building R-devel packages on daily basis is the time that we stop building 
R-oldrel. In fact it is very common that after a release packages are coming in 
requiring the new release so it becomes increasingly pointless to run oldrel 
builds -- so historically they have been switched off even much earlier. This 
may be the case even more so in the future because of the new R release 
schedule and the fact that we may move up OS X target version which will make 
building old releases even harder.

Cheers,
Simon



> -- the Windows last updates were on Feb 28).
> 
>> Michael Weylandt
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Winsemius<[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Following on what David said,
>>>> 
>>>> Are you equipped to build the package locally? That is, do you have
>>>> gcc and g++ installed?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm almost certain that a local build (or an upgrade to 2.14 or 2.15
>>>> in just over two weeks time) will be the easiest way to fix things.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure why you say that. He seems to have a fairly standard
>>> /R.framework/ location for his /Resources/ and the fact that he still
>>> posting in HTML suggests he is not likely to have compiled his R from
>>> source.  A few years ago I would often solve problems by building from
>>> source, but in recent years when there is a binary package available, it
>>> generally installs without problems.
>>> 
>>> (I do see that there is a ../bin/../2.13/  node in the CRAN mirror at ku,
>>> which is not typical, so perhaps we are both wrong here. Now that I check,
>>> both the Berkeley and the CMU CRAN mirrors seem to keep their Mac binaries a
>>> lot longer than is required, so KU is just following US-local tradition. The
>>> CMU mirror has binaries back to R 2.8.)
>>> 
>>> Is your experience different?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> David.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Colstat<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to install package MCMCPack.   I am using Lion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> R confirms:
>>>>> trying URL '
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://rweb.quant.ku.edu/cran/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.13/MCMCpack_1.2-1.tgz
>>>>> '
>>>>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 8055525 bytes (7.7 Mb)
>>>>> opened URL
>>>>> ==================================================
>>>>> downloaded 7.7 Mb
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The downloaded packages are in
>>>>> 
>>>>> /var/folders/qf/q83rlh3x2qjcp75c3phtj81c0000gn/T//Rtmp4qzUW6/downloaded_packages
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> seems like its downloaded, great!
>>>>> 
>>>>>> require(MCMCpack)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Loading required package: MCMCpack
>>>>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>>>>  unable to load shared object
>>>>> 
>>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/MCMCpack/libs/x86_64/MCMCpack.so':
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/MCMCpack/libs/x86_64/MCMCpack.so,
>>>>> 6): Library not loaded:
>>>>> @rpath/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>>>>>  Referenced from:
>>>>> 
>>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/MCMCpack/libs/x86_64/MCMCpack.so
>>>>>  Reason: image not found
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have installed packages before, what is up with this one?
>>>>> 
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