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How to rebuild the 'indexing' package on MAC OSX

I am trying to install 'indexing' package in r: R-Forge

However, It says it is "failed to build" & am looking for a way to fix this? I do not see a download option for the package.... I am currently on MAC OSX Yosemite and trying to load this in the latest R-Studio. 

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

When trying to load via r-studio:

install.packages("indexing", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> source repository is unavailable to check versions
> Error in install.packages : Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed!
Solution

  • Even though the download link on R-forge doesn't appear to work any more (it may say not available for version >= 3.3. etc), you can still install indexing from source on OSX (or any other operating system).

    Open a new terminal in OS X, and in a directly of your choice type the following to install indexing:

    svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/indexing/

    If you did this correctly, type ls in the terminal and you should see a new directory called indexing. Inside this directory is the source code you need to build the indexing package.

    Without changing from the current directory, install the dependency R package mmap if you don't already have it (you might have already installed in from CRAN, in which case you may be able to skip this step) with:

    R CMD INSTALL indexing/pkg/mmap

    Finally, install indexing from source

    R CMD INSTALL indexing/pkg/indexing

    You should see something like this in the terminal output if successful:

    * installing to library ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library’
* installing *source* package ‘indexing’ ...
** libs
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
installing to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/indexing/libs
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (indexing)

    Enjoy!