On Sep 17, 2010, at 5:53 PM, steven mosher wrote: > I've come to the point where some of the packages I want to use require me > to work from source. > > ERROR: dependencies ŒRcompression‚ are not available for package ŒRKML‚ > * removing Œ/Users/mosher/Library/R/2.11/library/RKML‚ > * installing *source* package ŒRcompression‚ ... > Checking configuration for Rcompression to find libz and libbz2 > checking for gcc... no > checking for cc... no > checking for cl.exe... no > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH > See `config.log' for more details. > ERROR: configuration failed for package ŒRcompression‚ > > So, It appears that I have to install a compiler. Looking at Xcode the > package that was available required an OS upgrade > is Xcode the only option or is there another option I can use.. >
Xcode is available for pretty much all OS X versions so you must be looking at the wrong one. If you have OS X 10.5 you want Xcode 3.1.4 and for OS X 10.6 you want Xcode 3.2.3 or 3.2.4. They will be on your PATH automatically once you install them. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
