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Note that ReporteRs has been removed from CRAN the 16th of July 2018 and is not maintained anymore. please migrate to officer.
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Install issue (Mac OS X, High Sierra) #214

Closed md0u80c9 closed 7 years ago

md0u80c9 commented 7 years ago

Hi,

Not sure whether this is a problem directly with ReporteRs or one of its dependencies.

I'm trying to install and run ReporteRs on a Mac with High Sierra Beta 7. This may be relevant because of the introduction of APFS.

When I try to library ('ReporteRs') I get the following error:

> library ('ReporteRs') Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ReporteRs’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...): unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/gdtools/libs/gdtools.so': dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/gdtools/libs/gdtools.so, 6): Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libcairo.2.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/gdtools/libs/gdtools.so Reason: image not found

A quick google search for that error didn't reveal anything useful.

SessionInfo() returns the following: R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13

Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

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

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

other attached packages: [1] rJava_0.9-8 ReporteRsjars_0.0.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.4.1 tools_3.4.1 Rcpp_0.12.12

I'd be really grateful for any suggestions.

Best wishes,

Andrew

md0u80c9 commented 7 years ago

I've solved this - Cairo needs installing. I have created the following build guide for installing Reporters on the Mac based on things I picked up from reading around which addresses some of the 'gotchas' which make installing ReporteRs non-trivial:

  1. Install XCode; check in Preferences that Command line tools is set to latest XCode.
  2. Open Terminal and enter the following commands
  3. Check Java version: • java –version
  4. If Java isn’t installed a dialog will open; download the latest JDK and install.
  5. Add a symlink to the library (on El Capitan onwards users aren’t allowed to write to /usr/lib): • sudo ln -s $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib /usr/local/lib
  6. Repeat the above every time Java is upgraded.
  7. Install HomeBrew for Mac: • /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  8. Install Cairo: • brew install cairo
davidgohel commented 7 years ago

thanks, there are people that are facing issues installing Cairo. This only happens on mac OS (but I can't reproduce it neither). I will add your notes to the FAQ