On Mar 30, 2013, at 7:29 AM, Petar Milin wrote:

> Hello ALL!
> I am a newbie on Mac, with long Linux experience (Ubuntu, than Debian, 
> finally Fedora, for many years). R on Mac is very pleasant and works nicely. 
> However, I noticed something strange, while I was trying to compile a package 
> on which my research team is working. Briefly, I could compile/install the 
> package via R interface, but not in console mode (terminal). It seems that 
> some low-level stuffs are missing, like gfortran and the like. Now, I wonder 
> how it is possible to compile the package successfully via R IDE, but not in 
> terminal, with R CMD INSTALL xyz?
> 
> Also, if I miss something which is not there by default, and provided by 
> Xcode, how to get that? Should I use Mac Ports? Homebrew? Or via packages on 
> this site <http://hpc.sourceforge.net/index.php>?
> 

None of them - they won't work. Install Fortran from CRAN
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

Also make sure you have Xcode Command Line Tools installed.

> Please, help me with this? I am worried that PATHs are not nicely lined up 
> and integrated in my Mac OS X…
> 

Are you using MacPort or similar? They may be messing up your system - make 
sure you are not on your PATH.
At any rate, for more specific help, please include exact output of the 
failures you see.

Cheers,
Simon



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