Can't find gfortran 4.8 to build package - r

Question

I'm trying to install the deldir package in R via install.packages("deldir",type = 'source') but am getting the following error message (this is OSX Mavericks):
* installing *source* package ‘deldir’ ...
** package ‘deldir’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c acchk.f -o acchk.o
make: gfortran-4.8: No such file or directory
make: *** [acchk.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘deldir’
gfortran 4.8 does seem to be available on my system, however:
> gfortran -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gfortran
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gfortran/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13/4.8.2/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13
Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gfortran --with-gmp=/Users/fx/devel/gcc/deps-static/x86_64 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --build=x86_64-apple-darwin13
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC)
After symlinking gfortran-4.8 to gfortran I get a bit further but fail nonetheless:
* installing *source* package ‘deldir’ ...
** package ‘deldir’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c acchk.f -o acchk.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c addpt.f -o addpt.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c adjchk.f -o adjchk.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c binsrt.f -o binsrt.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c circen.f -o circen.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c cross.f -o cross.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c delet.f -o delet.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c delet1.f -o delet1.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c delout.f -o delout.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c delseg.f -o delseg.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c dirout.f -o dirout.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c dirseg.f -o dirseg.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c dldins.f -o dldins.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c initad.f -o initad.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c insrt.f -o insrt.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c insrt1.f -o insrt1.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c intri.f -o intri.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c locn.f -o locn.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c master.f -o master.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c mnnd.f -o mnnd.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c pred.f -o pred.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c qtest.f -o qtest.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c qtest1.f -o qtest1.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c stoke.f -o stoke.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c succ.f -o succ.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c swap.f -o swap.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c testeq.f -o testeq.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c triar.f -o triar.o
gfortran-4.8 -fPIC -g -O2 -c trifnd.f -o trifnd.o
clang -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o deldir.so acchk.o addpt.o adjchk.o binsrt.o circen.o cross.o delet.o delet1.o delout .o delseg.o dirout.o dirseg.o dldins.o initad.o insrt.o insrt1.o intri.o locn.o master.o mnnd.o pred.o qtest.o qtest1.o stoke.o succ.o swap.o testeq.o triar.o trifnd.o -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2 - lgfortran -lquadmath -lm -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2'
ld: library not found for -lgfortran
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [deldir.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘deldir’
Note that /usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.3 exists, /usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.8.2 does not
sessionInfo():
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (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] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
Sys.getenv():
> Sys.getenv()
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING
"0x1F5:0:0"
__CHECKFIX1436934
"1"
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render
"/tmp/launch-jCxLku/Render"
DISPLAY
":0"
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
"/Users/<myusername>/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib::/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib"
EDITOR
"vi"
GIT_ASKPASS
"rpostback-askpass"
HOME
"/Users/<myusername>"
LANG
"en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE
"en_US.UTF-8"
LN_S
"ln -s"
LOGNAME
"<myusername>"
MAKE
"make"
PAGER
"/usr/bin/less"
PATH
"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin"
R_BROWSER
"/usr/bin/open"
R_BZIPCMD
"/usr/bin/bzip2"
R_DOC_DIR
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/doc"
R_GZIPCMD
"/usr/bin/gzip"
R_HOME
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources"
R_INCLUDE_DIR
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include"
R_LIBS_SITE
""
R_LIBS_USER
"~/Library/R/3.1/library"
R_PAPERSIZE
"a4"
R_PDFVIEWER
"/usr/bin/open"
R_PLATFORM
"x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0"
R_PRINTCMD
"lpr"
R_QPDF
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/qpdf"
R_RD4PDF
"times,inconsolata,hyper"
R_SESSION_TMPDIR
"/var/folders/jf/ds4sdyys44xckz_7f9zhrvsh0000gn/T//RtmpXaPpYF"
R_SHARE_DIR
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share"
R_SYSTEM_ABI
"osx,gcc,gxx,gfortran,?"
R_TEXI2DVICMD
"/usr/bin/texi2dvi"
R_UNZIPCMD
"/usr/bin/unzip"
R_ZIPCMD
"/usr/bin/zip"
RS_RPOSTBACK_PATH
"/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/rpostback"
RS_SHARED_SECRET
<removed>
RSTUDIO
"1"
RSTUDIO_PANDOC
"/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/pandoc"
RSTUDIO_SESSION_PORT
"10153"
RSTUDIO_USER_IDENTITY
"<myusername>"
SED
"/usr/bin/sed"
SHELL
"/bin/bash"
SSH_AUTH_SOCK
"/tmp/launch-Shnu2H/Listeners"
TAR
"/usr/bin/tar"
TMPDIR
"/var/folders/jf/ds4sdyys44xckz_7f9zhrvsh0000gn/T/"
USER
"<myusername>"

Answer 1

I was getting the same error when installing the igraph package in R on Manjaro Linux.
It was due to the absence of a Fortran compiler (gfortran I think). I found out that gfortran package is named as gcc-fortran in Manjaro repo and many other (GNU) Linux repos. So, I just installed gcc-fortran package and then restarted RStudio and igraph package installed without any issues.

Answer 2

I found a solution here: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201688563-Problem-with-Mac-Yosemite-Beta-and-RStudio-not-finding-TeX-distribution
It turns out that Adam Maxwell noted that Yosemite beta has a significant bug in passing environment variables to subprocesses.
After installing gfortran as in OS X package installation depends on gfortran-4.8 .
This works: create an alias in your .bash_profile
alias fixrs="launchctl setenv PATH /usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin"
Then close and open the terminal.
And execute the fixrs command in the terminal before launching RStudio.
Then I could build igraph successfully.

Answer 3

I was using a linux machine and RStudio server. I had a similar problem. I knew already that gfortran was on the machine thanks to the system administrator.
To solve, in the shell, I typed which gfortran, which gave me a path.
Then, following this SO posting, I entered the following in the shell to create a new Makevars file
# create a file called ~/.R/Makevars:
mkdir -p ~/.R
touch ~/.R/Makevars
Then, in that new file, I wrote the following
F77 = /usr/local/bin/gfortran #this was the path that I got from typing which gfortran in the shell
FC = $F77
FLIBS = -L/usr/local/bin/gfortran
From there, I was able to install the package that wasn't compiling properly (in my case vegan instead of igraph using install.packages("vegan")

Answer 4

I had your same problem (in OS X Yosemite), and (unfortunately) painstakingly recreated your symlink "partial solution". Finally, I was able to solve the issue by forgetting about linking or aliasing and just downgrading to gfortran-4.8.
I had installed the newer version with brew, so for me this entailed uninstalling
brew uninstall gcc
and then following the instructions here to install 4.8.2, i.e.
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 /
It still threw up some warnings but at least I got a successful installation of deldir, which I needed to run pgirmess.