A month ago I installed Rtools all by default options on my personal computer and was able to write C++ functions in R ever since. Now I am trying to install Rtools on my company's computer and unable to correctly install Rtools. I believe it has something to do with the PATH or some relevant thing that I don't quite understand. Help is so needed. Below are my steps and results:
Install R-3.03 in the local drive c; successful
install.packages(c("Rcpp","installr")); successful
library(installr)
install.Rtools(). In this step there's one thing suspicious:
I only chose "Save version information to registry".
5. library(Rcpp); evalCpp("1 + 1"); and I got the following:
running command:
make -f "C:/R- 30~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/R-30~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)
Warning message:
SHLIB="sourceCpp_35432.dll" OBJECTS="file1bb831d14d68.o"' had status 127
Error in sourceCpp(code = code, env = env, rebuild = rebuild, showOutput = showOutput, :
Error 1 occurred building shared library.
WARNING: The tools required to build C++ code for R were not found.
Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools
And I did restart the computer to see if miracles can happen, but no.
Can anyone help me? Thanks!
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Issue description:
I'm trying to install 'ggplot2' package on my R studio I'm installing on MacOs Mojave 10.14.1. Each time I'm trying to installing using either
install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = T)
R Studio -> tools -> install packages... and type down 'ggplot2'
I have the following error appear:
sh: line 1: 1549 Abort trap: 6 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
error: unable to find utility "package_name", not a developer tool or in PATH
My approach to solve the issue:
I made sure that Xcode installed and updated
in R Studio, I made sure that I'm able to download contents without using secure HTTPS method
tools -> global options -> packages -> unchecked 'Use secure download method for HTTP '
none of above approaches worked for me.
How can I overcome this issue ?!
I come across the solution in Stackoverflow provided by Ivan Mir, basically you need do the following:
Check out xcode-select --print-path in your Terminal.
If it's /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer then run
sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools to set xcode-select to non-Xcode Command Line Tools.
In case you don't have /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools directory, you can get them here for your current Xcode version.
Does anyone have a link to clear instructions on how to install and configure the necessary latex packages to build R packages on a mac?
I have some scripts for building and checking R packages on a mac server. They seemed to work fine, but after upgrading to R 3.1.3, many of the packages started failing with
Error in texi2dvi(file = file, pdf = TRUE, clean = clean, quiet = quiet, :
Running 'texi2dvi' on 'networkVignette.tex' failed.
Messages:
sh: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: No such file or directory
Calls: <Anonymous> -> texi2pdf -> texi2dvi
Execution halted
I found a thread which seemed to suggest I need a more recent version texinfo (5.2) than what is installed by default. And apparently I've I've got the wrong version installed in the wrong location?
which texi2pdf
/sw/bin/texi2pdf
texi2pdf --version
texi2pdf (GNU Texinfo 5.1) 5234
(same version is reported when running system('texi2pdf --version') in R )
This thread gives a link to a texinfo 5.2 source collection:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-CMD-build-looking-for-texi2dvi-in-the-wrong-place-R-devel-td4701706.html
But I'm not familiar with installing executable from a tar.gz file on a mac. The R mac help pages I found suggest installing MacTex, which I tried but that didn't seem to help.
** Update: ** additional discussion of related problems on R-SIG-mac mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/r-sig-mac/xjyuFdl5Ezk
Update:
Here is where I'm currently at:
I removed my /sw directory to uninstall fink and all of its packages (couldn't figure out how to upgrade it)
installed homebrew
brew install texinfo installs version 5.2 the package,
but generates the message This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local and actually installs in in /usr/local/Cellar/texinfo/5.2/bin which means it is not on the path and R won't find it.
manually symlink each of the texi2pdf, texi2dvi , etc as vincent suggests (this is because R has the /usr/local/bin location as default in the tools::texi2dvi function?
edited the /etc/paths file on the system to add /usr/local/bin so that finds the brew installed 5.2 version before it finds it before the osx system supplied version 4.6 version. This may not be necessary because R has it hardcoded?
All of this gets rid of the "can't find texi* errors", and gives me a bunch of latex errors (which I don't see on unix and windows builds) so I'm still kind of stuck.
This seems very hackish, so there must be a cleaner way? But it sounds like stuff with tex and mac is very sketchy at the moment? https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/208181/why-did-my-tex-related-gui-program-stop-working-in-mac-os-x-yosemite
This worked for me on Mavericks and on Yosemite:
ln -s /usr/bin/texi2dvi /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi
ln -s /usr/bin/texi2pdf /usr/local/bin/texi2pdf
On my Lion system both the command which texi2pdf at a Terminal/bash prompt and from a R.app GUI prompt tell me that I have that program in:
system("which texi2pdf")
#/opt/local/bin/texi2pdf
That is a location typical for MacPorts installation. I think the /usr/local/bin/ is what the binary R version "expects". I'm not really that UNIX savvy, but I think the you can modify the PATH environment variable so that R will be able to find your installation. (Whether it will be compatible I cannot say since so much detail is missing from your question.) My Tex installation is MacTex, which I got from https://www.tug.org/mactex/. I admit to having a cobbled-together system:
system("echo $PATH")
# /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
That gets set at the beginning of an R session because this is the first line in my .Rprofile-(invisible)file:
Sys.setenv(PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin")
I think /sw/bin/ installations signify a fink install, which I have had very little success with. Simon Urbanek suggests not using any package installers, but then leaves the rest of us UNIX weenies very little in the way of worked examples of how to install that various external packages that underpin the many interesting and oh-so-useful R packages. So I feel your pain, but I'm not running for President.
So I suppose you could try this at your R console before again attempting one of the earlier unsuccessful installs:
Sys.setenv(PATH=paste( Sys.getenv()$PATH, # should be the character string of the $PATH
"/sw/bin/", sep=":")
)
Wish I could offer guarantees, but if it breaks the only guarantee is that you get to keep all the pieces.
I ran into a similar error message using Mavericks 10.9.5 (factory configured) and R 3.1.
It turns out that I didn't have pdfLaTex. I went to this page: http://tug.org/mactex/ and downloaded the MacTex installation package. It's big (>2GB) but after I installed it, my R package build problems went away.
Hope this might be helpful to anyone else who runs into this error message.
I'm pretty new to R so apologies for a stupid question. I'm trying to get rcpp running but I'm stuck in an endless loop of R asking me to re-install RTools.
I broadly followed the code in this blog post, although first time off I installed everything by hand & I've subsequently re-installed everything a few times over. I'm running Windows 7, R version 3.1.2, R Studio Version 0.98.1091 (not that this should matter much) and RTools 3.1.
An edited highlight of what my console looks like is as follows:
> library(installr)
Welcome to installr version 0.15.3...
> install.Rtools()
Loading required package: devtools
No need to install Rtools - You've got the relevant version of Rtools installed
> find_rtools()
[1] TRUE
> library(Rcpp)
> evalCpp("1+1")
Error in sourceCpp(code = code, env = env, rebuild = rebuild, showOutput = showOutput, :
Error 65535 occurred building shared library.
At which point a dialog box pops up saying:
Install Build Tools
Compiling C/C++ code for R requires installation of additional build tools.
Do you want to install the additional tools now?
And then I get directed to download and re-install RTools 3.1 from cran all over again.
I've seen that this can be an issue with the PATH variable but I've tried various things including:
Nothing (extra) in the PATH variable
Including both references to R (C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.2\bin\x64) and RTools (C:\RBuildTools\3.1\bin;C:\RBuildTools\3.1\gcc-4.6.3\bin;) in the PATH. Once with RTools first, once with R first
Including just a reference to RTools in the PATH as the initial install file directed me to do.
Any ideas on things to try would be gratefully accepted!
EDIT
Following Dirk's comment it looks like I might have a problem with how RTools is installed. I've followed the instructions from several blogs / tutorials on how to install RTools; all to no avail (yet!)
This GitHub page gives some instructions on how install and check that the installation has worked. I've followed all the checks (see below for copy of the console) and it looks like I have a working install of RTools, but when I try to run evalCPP() again I get the same error as before directing me to install RTools.
> Sys.getenv('PATH')
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.1.2\\bin\\x64;C:\\RTools\\bin;C:\\RTools\\gcc-4.6.3\\bin;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Enterprise Vault\\EVClient\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\VSShell\\Common7\\IDE\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\DTS\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\Common7\\IDE\\PrivateAssemblies\\;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\110\\Tools\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Web Platform Installer\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SDKs\\TypeScript\\1.0\\;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\DTS\\Binn\\"
Warning message:
printing of extremely long output is truncated
> system('g++ -v')
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\RTools\GCC-46~1.3\bin\G__~1.EXE
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/rtools/gcc-46~1.3/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: i686-w64-mingw32
Configured with: /data/gannet/ripley/Sources/mingw-test3/src/gcc/configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --with-sysroot=/data/gannet/ripley/Sources/mingw-test3/mingw32mingw32/mingw32 --prefix=/data/gannet/ripley/Sources/mingw-test3/mingw32mingw32/mingw32 --with-gmp=/data/gannet/ripley/Sources/mingw-test3/mingw32mingw32/prereq_install --with-mpfr=/data/gannet/ripley/Sources/mingw-test3/mingw32mingw32/prereq_install --with-mpc=/data/gannet/ripley/Sources/mingw-test3/mingw32mingw32/prereq_install --disable-shared --enable-static --enable-targets=all --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-libgomp --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-fully-dynamic-string --disable-nls --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --disable-win32-registry --disable-rpath --disable-werror CFLAGS='-O2 -mtune=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer' LDFLAGS=
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.6.3 20111208 (prerelease) (GCC)
> system('where make')
C:\Rtools\bin\make.exe
I've also had a look at Appendix D of R Installation and Admin. I can't see anything in here I've not already tried except for section D.4 which implies I might need to rebuild rcpp from source using my installed RTools. I don't have time to do this right away but will give it a try unless people say this route is not worth my time.
EDIT v2
So I tried building rcpp from source ... and that didn't work either. I downloaded both the package source and windows binaries from the CRAN Rcpp package page. In the R console I now get:
> install.packages(pkgs = "C:/Rcpp_0.11.4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, contriburl = NULL, type = "source", verbose = TRUE)
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/james.macadie/Documents/R/win-library/3.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
system (cmd0): C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.2/bin/x64/R CMD INSTALL
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘C:/Rcpp_0.11.4.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 3.1.2)
I guess my active questions now boil down to:
Reading the whole of the post above can anyone tell me how to fix things so it just works? Or, failing that...
What tests can I run to check I really do have Rtools installed correctly? Everything I have found on the internet suggests I do: system('where make') etc. However, the evidence of being unable to run evalCpp or other rccp functions suggests I don't.
What am I doing wrong when building from source? Should I try the command line option?
EDIT v3
Running evalCpp with showOutput= TRUE and verbose = TRUE I think I've tracked the error back to R CMD SHLIB not working. I followed this blog, which shows how to work with the command line R directly. However when I get to the line R CMD SHLIB sequence_examples.c the execution just skips straight to the next command line without doing anything, generating any files in the directory or throwing any errors. I tried running the --help options at the command line but get the same sort of error:
C:\Users\james.macadie> R --help
Or: R CMD command args
where 'command' is one of:
INSTALL Install add-on packages
REMOVE Remove add-on packages
SHLIB Make a DLL for use with dynload
BATCH Run R in batch mode
build Build add-on packages
check Check add-on packages
Rprof Post process R profiling files
Rdconv Convert Rd format to various other formats
Rdiff difference R output files
Rd2pdf Convert Rd format to PDF
Rd2txt Convert Rd format to pretty text
Stangle Extract S/R code from vignette
Sweave Process vignette documentation
config Obtain configuration information about R
open Open a file via Windows file associations
texify Process a latex file
Use
R CMD command --help
for usage information for each command.
C:\Users\james.macadie> R CMD SHLIB --help
C:\Users\james.macadie>
N.B. for people reading the earlier code samples higher up this post I have changed a few things since those code snapshots:
I've installed R directly into C:\R. It used to be in C:\Program Files\R\ but as has been suggested file paths with spaces in can cause problems
I'm referencing Rtools under C:\Rtools\ and not C:\RBuildTools\
Thanks for any suggestions, as ever
Had the same endless loop issue when trying to install Twitter's BreakoutDetection (which is also written in cpp)
fixed by executing the following
Sys.setenv(PATH="%PATH%;C:/Rtools/gcc-4.6.3/bin;c:/Rtools/bin")
and then answering "no" when presented with the following prompt:
"Install Build Tools Compiling C/C++ code for R requires installation of additional build tools. Do you want to install the additional tools now?"
Didn't try these actions independently so not sure if either on their own would have fixed the issue
I found that ensuring all of these were in my path fixed it. I did this with RStudio closed; I didn't reboot after.
C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.3\bin\x64
C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.3\bin
C:\RBuildTools\3.2\bin
C:\RBuildTools\3.2\gcc-4.6.3\bin64
C:\RBuildTools\3.2\gcc-4.6.3\bin
C:\RBuildTools\3.2\gcc-4.6.3\i686-w64-mingw32\bin
These are on my Win7-64bit computer. YMMV, and I'm mostly posting this to ensure others see it if they are having the same issue.
In the end it was something a bit left-field. Inspired by the following post, I had a look at the ComSpec environment variable. Not quite sure how, but I had it set to "cmd.exe".
Removing the double quotes, so it said cmd.exe, and then rebooting fixed everything.
Thanks to all who've tried to help.
I experienced the same problem, I fixed this problem by adding Rtools dir into env variables:
Sys.setenv(BINPREF = "C:/Rtools/mingw_$(WIN)/bin/")
I am trying to load RQuantLib but I get the following error:
> require(RQuantLib)
Loading required package: RQuantLib
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'RQuantLib', details:
call: if (is.character(qc) && nchar(qc) > 1) {
error: missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'bash -c 'type -p quantlib-config' 2>/dev/null' had status 1
I am pretty new to programming in general so I am not sure what this means. I am working in an Mac OS Maverick environment, I downloaded the latest version of RQuantLib (0.3.12) and the "R Package Installer" says it is installed. (I installed RQuantLib from the terminal using "R CMD INSTALL RQuantLib" as using install.packages() from within R did not work - it gave me an error saying QuantLib was not configured, although it was running fine in from the terminal.) I am running R from the R console. QuantLib works fine and so does Rcpp.
I checked the "NAMESPACE" document in the RQuantLib folder and it says:
import(methods)
importFrom(Rcpp, Rcpp.plugin.maker)
useDynLib(RQuantLib)
exportPattern("*.default")
export(
##--arrays.R
"oldEuropeanOptionArrays",
"EuropeanOptionArrays",
"plotOptionSurface",
##--asian.R
"AsianOption",
##--bermudan.R
"BermudanSwaption",
"summary.G2Analytic",
"summary.HWAnalytic",
"summary.HWTree",
"summary.BKTree",
##--bond.R
"ZeroCouponBond",
"ZeroPriceByYield",
"ZeroYield",
"FixedRateBond",
"FixedRateBondYield",
"FixedRateBondPriceByYield",
"FloatingRateBond",
"ConvertibleZeroCouponBond",
"ConvertibleFixedCouponBond",
"ConvertibleFloatingCouponBond",
"CallableBond",
"FittedBondCurve",
##--calendars.R
"isBusinessDay", "businessDay",
"isHoliday",
"isWeekend",
"isEndOfMonth",
"getEndOfMonth", "endOfMonth",
"adjust",
"advance",
"businessDaysBetween",
"getHolidayList", "holidayList",
"setCalendarContext",
##--dayCounter.R
"dayCount",
"yearFraction",
"setEvaluationDate",
##--discount.R
"DiscountCurve",
"plot.DiscountCurve",
##--implied.R
"EuropeanOptionImpliedVolatility",
"AmericanOptionImpliedVolatility",
"BinaryOptionImpliedVolatility",
##--option.R
"EuropeanOption",
"AmericanOption",
"AmericanOption.default",
"BinaryOption",
"BarrierOption"
)
S3method("plot", "Option")
S3method("print", "Option")
S3method("summary", "Option")
S3method("plot", "Bond")
S3method("print", "Bond")
S3method("summary", "Bond")
If I try to specify the path where the Terminal wrote that it installed RQuantLib while requiring it I get the following error:
> require('RQuantLib', lib.loc = "C:/Users/dealmer/Library/R/3.1/library/RQuantLib/libs")
Loading required package: RQuantLib
Warning message:
In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, :
no library trees found in 'lib.loc'
So, do I need to move something from there to where the other R libraries are? (There is already a folder named "RQuantLib" in the folder where the other R library folders are, that's where I found the NAMESPACE doc for example) The path that the Terminal gave me I can't follow in the Finder window however because it doesn't show the "Library" folder and I don't know how to make it do that.)
This is what .libPaths() gives me:
> .libPaths()
[1] "/Users/dealmer/Library/R/3.1/library"
[2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library"
The R libraries are in [2].
I've tried googling but I can't find anything that seems helpful. Any help will be very appreciated. Thank you
- Dom
I think the issue is that on Linux we have quantlib-config in the $PATH:
edd#max:~$ quantlib-config --help
Usage: quantlib-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] \
[--libs] [--cflags]
edd#max:~$ quantlib-config --version
1.4
edd#max:~$
I don't own an OS X box, so I depend on someone like you help with a better configure setup. It should just work if you copy (or soft-link) quantlib-config into your path (eg /usr/local/bin), or adjust $PATH otherwise to include the directory it is in.
I had the same issue and after some hours of struggle I manage to use something not very rigorous but it works!
It seems that R has some issues evaluating system("bash -c 'type -p quantlib-config'").
After having installed QuantLib, typing the command bash -c 'type -p quantlib-config' in Terminal gives us the path of our quantlib-config which is for me /opt/local/bin/quantlib-config.
So I went back to my source folder for RQuantLib (version 0.4.0) and replaced qc in file R/inline.Rby:
qc <- as.character("/opt/local/bin/quantlib-config")
and rebuilt the package using the terminal command R CMD install RQuantLib/.
As I said, not very sexy but it works.
A restart of R and Rstudio is necessary.
Hope it helps!
I am running into a simple setup problem with Rcpp and I cannot get it to work. I tried to follow this example http://www.r-bloggers.com/user2013-the-rcpp-tutorial/
But when executing this code:
library(Rcpp)
evalCpp("1 + 1", showOutput= TRUE)
I get this output
C:/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R CMD SHLIB -o "sourceCpp_33280.dll" "file8d01b0a675b.cpp"
Error in sourceCpp(code = code, env = env, rebuild = rebuild, showOutput = showOutput, :
Error 1 occurred building shared library.
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed.
Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
I have done the following things in an attempt to make it work:
installed Rtools 31 with install.Rtools()
installed R in C:\R\R-3.0.1
library files are stored in C:\R\R-3.0.1\library
installed Rstudio in C:\R\RStudio
placed my script in C:\R
most similar issues seem to suggest that a space was in the file path, therefore i moved pretty much everything I could. But still it fails to locate Rtools. I tried it on my laptop and on my desktop and both don't work, so there is probably something structural I am doing wrong.
Looks like neither your R binaries nor Rtools directories are in your system's PATH environment variable. Try this:
> writeLines(strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1L]])
C:\R\Rtools\bin
C:\R\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\bin
C:\R\R-devel\bin\x64
[... and so on ...]
If your directories C:\R\R-3.0.1\bin\x64\ and C:\R\Rtools\bin\ & C:\R\Rtools\gcc-*.*.*\bin\ (replace \gcc-*-*-*\ with your version of the gcc-binaries) are not listed, the needed components can't be found.
To be on the safe side, also create a system variable called CYGWIN with the value nodosfilewarning.
After changing/creating the PATH and CYGWIN variables, reboot. Then it should work and you can place your sources anywhere on your machine and also compile them manually using R CMD SHLIB.