I am having issues in installing a package from a .tar.gz repository. When I try to install it, I get the following error:
ERROR: dependency ‘RcppArmadillo’ is not available for package ‘xxx'
I looked online for solutions trying to install RccpArmadillo first but there's a lot of confusion and I am stuck in the process.
I first simply tried
install.packages("RccpArmadillo")
But I got this strange message
Warning in install.packages : package ‘RccpArmadillo’ is not available for this version of R
Online, I found suggestions to type in the Terminal (outside R) the following code
curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 sudo tar fvxz gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 -C /
But still, not working. I get the following error from the Terminal
curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 sudo tar fvxz gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 -C / % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 162 100 162 0 0 522 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 532 Password: tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format
Does anyone have any idea of what is going on? How can this issue be solved? Here are some info about the environment via sessionInfo()
`R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16) Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Ventura 13.5.2
Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib; LAPACK version 3.11.0
attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_4.3.1 tools_4.3.1 `
The version of R that I am using is the last released for M2 silicon Macs and should not be an obsolescence problem.
The package is called RcppArmadillo not RccpArmadillo (cpp, not ccp). It's simply a typo.
install.packages("RcppArmadillo")