On 29 Nov 2012, at 17:49, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29/11/2012 17:37, Federico Calboli wrote: >> On 29 Nov 2012, at 17:29, Jochen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just a guess, but maybe XCode and its command line tools need to be >>> installed? >> >> I don't know for third parties, but I do have the latest XCode + command >> line tools installed (and I would need them for MacPorts in the first >> place). As by my previous email that's obviously not enough. > > Correct, pkg-config is not part of Xcode. It is also not a good way to find > out where X11 is. I did suggest following R, not a randomly chosen package > for a different piece of software (GTK+, sic). > > As ever, this is covered in the R manuals, which it seems none of you have > the courtesy to read. Search for pkg-config in 'Writing R Extensions'. As I am not the package author (I just volunteered to test if it builds on OS X, and in particular on a machine that does have pkg-config installed through MacPorts) I fail to see why *I* should have to courtesy to read the manual. BW F > > > >> BW >> >> F >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> Am 29.11.2012 um 18:09 schrieb Jakson Alves de Aquino <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Berend Hasselman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 29-11-2012, at 17:16, Jakson Alves de Aquino wrote: >>>>>> I adapted the code from cairoDevice package. It was just a matter >>>>>> of replacing gtk with x11 and I hope that now it will build on any >>>>>> unix that have X installed. >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/jalvesaq/VimCom/ >>>>> >>>>> Using Mac OS X 10.6.8 and R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) >>>>> >>>>> Experiment 1 >>>>> ---------------- >>>>> [.../vimcom]: R CMD check vimcom-master >>>>> * using log directory >>>>> '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck' >>>>> * using R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) >>>>> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 (64-bit) >>>>> * using session charset: UTF-8 >>>>> * checking for file 'vimcom-master/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >>>>> * this is package 'vimcom' version '0.9-5' >>>>> * checking package namespace information ... OK >>>>> * checking package dependencies ... ERROR >>>>> Package suggested but not available: 'knitr' >>>> >>>> You can also install the 'knitr' package. >>>> >>>>> The suggested packages are required for a complete check. >>>>> Checking can be attempted without them by setting the environment >>>>> variable _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value. >>>>> >>>>> Experiment 2 >>>>> ---------------- >>>>> [.../vimcom]: export _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=0 >>>>> [.../vimcom]: R CMD check vimcom-master >>>>> * using log directory >>>>> '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck' >>>>> * using R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) >>>>> * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 (64-bit) >>>>> * using session charset: UTF-8 >>>>> * checking for file 'vimcom-master/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >>>>> * this is package 'vimcom' version '0.9-5' >>>>> * checking package namespace information ... OK >>>>> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE >>>>> Package suggested but not available for checking: 'knitr' >>>>> * checking if this is a source package ... OK >>>>> * checking if there is a namespace ... OK >>>>> * checking for executable files ... OK >>>>> * checking whether package 'vimcom' can be installed ... ERROR >>>>> Installation failed. >>>>> See >>>>> '/Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/pkgsrc/vimcom/vimcom-master.Rcheck/00install.out' >>>>> for details. >>>>> >>>>> Contents .../00install.out >>>>> >>>>> * installing *source* package 'vimcom' ... >>>>> checking for pkg-config... no >>>>> ERROR: Cannot find pkg-config. >>>>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'vimcom' >>>> >>>> pkg-config is an application that knows what should be the values of >>>> CPPFLAGS and LIBS. Sorry, but I don't know how you can get it >>>> correctly installed on Mac OS X. >>>> >>>>> pkg-config is not available standard on Mac OS X. >>>>> It is probably available on the Mac binary package machine. >>>>> >>>>> I don't think you may assume that an X11 installation on Mac OS X >>>>> has been registered with pkg-config or how you call that. >>>>> >>>>> Your method is not foolproof. >>>>> Experts will have to enlighten you. >>>> >>>> You are right, and I'm waiting for the experts advice! >>>> >>>> Thanks for testing! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jakson Alves de Aquino >>>> Federal University of Ceará >>>> Social Sciences Department >>>> www.lepem.ufc.br/aquino.php >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >> -- >> Federico C. F. Calboli >> Neuroepidemiology and Ageing Research >> Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus >> Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG >> >> Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 >> >> f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk >> f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -- Federico C. F. 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