在Mac上使用R CMD INSTALL安装本地二进制软件包

Question

I came across a package that is not available on CRAN. I tried to install the package using:

Packages & Data > Package Installer > Local Binary Package > At User Level > [FileName.tgz] > Install...

This didn't work and I am now trying to use the R CMD INSTALL command. However, it seems I need to run that command in the command line interface but I cannot get it to install properly.

The package I'm trying to install is called gEcon . It can be found here . In particular, I am getting the following error message after "installing" the package:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘gEcon’:
package ‘gEcon’ was installed by an R version with different internals; it needs to be reinstalled for use with this R version

I assume it's the way I'm installing it.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You're going to need to install Xcode apparently, because you've got to install this from source per these directions :

Now, you've gotta update R to the latest stable release, or if you prefer you can find the exact minimum newest version needed for gEcon.

After upgrading R you can complete the installation from source.

Original answer to original question:

Two things:

1. To access the command line and use R CMD on an Apple computer, please use the terminal.app app. Please see this for more details.

2. An easier and probably better approach is to install your package from the author's Github (or BitBucket, etc) repository using devtools::install_github or just use devtools::install on the downloaded source project.