Data.table: Error when installing from source on macOS

Created on 1 May 2020  Â·  27Comments  Â·  Source: Rdatatable/data.table

I've followed all the instructions on https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Installation and searched StackOverflow, but I cannot get data.table to install from source (for OpenMP support) on Mac 10.14.6 with R4.0. I keep getting this error when I try to install from source:

> install.packages("data.table", type="source", Ncpus = 7)
trying URL 'https://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/data.table_1.12.8.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 4948391 bytes (4.7 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 4.7 MB
* installing *source* package ‘data.table’ ...
** package ‘data.table’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
zlib 1.2.11 is available ok
** libs
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c assign.c -o assign.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c between.c -o between.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c bmerge.c -o bmerge.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c chmatch.c -o chmatch.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c cj.c -o cj.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c coalesce.c -o coalesce.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c dogroups.c -o dogroups.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fastmean.c -o fastmean.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fcast.c -o fcast.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fifelse.c -o fifelse.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fmelt.c -o fmelt.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c forder.c -o forder.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c frank.c -o frank.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fread.c -o fread.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c freadR.c -o freadR.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c froll.c -o froll.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c frollR.c -o frollR.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c frolladaptive.c -o frolladaptive.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fsort.c -o fsort.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fwrite.c -o fwrite.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fwriteR.c -o fwriteR.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c gsumm.c -o gsumm.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c ijoin.c -o ijoin.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c init.c -o init.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c inrange.c -o inrange.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c nafill.c -o nafill.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c nqrecreateindices.c -o nqrecreateindices.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c openmp-utils.c -o openmp-utils.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c quickselect.c -o quickselect.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c rbindlist.c -o rbindlist.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c reorder.c -o reorder.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c shift.c -o shift.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c subset.c -o subset.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c transpose.c -o transpose.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c types.c -o types.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c uniqlist.c -o uniqlist.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c utils.c -o utils.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c vecseq.c -o vecseq.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c wrappers.c -o wrappers.o
/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang -fopenmp -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib -o data.table.so assign.o between.o bmerge.o chmatch.o cj.o coalesce.o dogroups.o fastmean.o fcast.o fifelse.o fmelt.o forder.o frank.o fread.o freadR.o froll.o frollR.o frolladaptive.o fsort.o fwrite.o fwriteR.o gsumm.o ijoin.o init.o inrange.o nafill.o nqrecreateindices.o openmp-utils.o quickselect.o rbindlist.o reorder.o shift.o subset.o transpose.o types.o uniqlist.o utils.o vecseq.o wrappers.o -lz -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
ld: unknown option: -platform_version
clang-10: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [data.table.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘data.table’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/data.table’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘data.table’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/fs/7z2xwjxx0vn3kj7x7khc06980000gp/T/RtmpyDidEl/downloaded_packages’
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

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     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.0 tools_4.0.0    packrat_0.5.0 
platform-specific

Most helpful comment

Never mind. I figured it out and am able to install with multithreaded support. I had to change my .R/Makevars file. Here are the new contents:

LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/clang4/lib
FLIBS=-L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin16/6.3.0 -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm
CC=/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX1X=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX98=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX11=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX14=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX17=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++

LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/opt/llvm
CC=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++ -fopenmp
# -O3 should be faster than -O2 (default) level optimisation ..
CFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=c++11 -mtune=native -pipe
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L$(LLVM_LOC)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(LLVM_LOC)/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I$(LLVM_LOC)/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include

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Are you able to try gcc instead of clang?

Just spotted this recently
https://github.com/s-u/R-mac-dev
Haven't look at it because I don't have mac, but maybe it will be helpful

Sorry, I'm kinda a newbie at this. How would I go about using gcc instead?

Never mind. I figured it out and am able to install with multithreaded support. I had to change my .R/Makevars file. Here are the new contents:

LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/clang4/lib
FLIBS=-L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin16/6.3.0 -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm
CC=/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX1X=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX98=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX11=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX14=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX17=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++

LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/opt/llvm
CC=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++ -fopenmp
# -O3 should be faster than -O2 (default) level optimisation ..
CFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=c++11 -mtune=native -pipe
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L$(LLVM_LOC)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(LLVM_LOC)/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I$(LLVM_LOC)/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include

@jrf1111 thanks for providing solution, closing then

Sorry to bother but I am trying to decipher the solution as I have the same problem (yes, newbie)

In which way having llvm and using other C compilers (not the ones in llvm, which give that strange error in the first post to me too) solves the problem? In case I do not have that gfortran, but I have actually followed all the instructuons https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Installation#openmp-enabled-compiler-for-mac but with manual installation, what should I write in Makevars to have data.table running multi-thread?

I have switched to gfortran per https://mac.r-project.org/tools/, https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/, set up .R/Makevars like this

FLIBS=-L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin18/8.2.0 -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm
CC=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX1X=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX98=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX11=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX14=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX17=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++

LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/gfortran
CC=$(LLVM_LOC)/bin/gcc -fopenmp
CXX=$(LLVM_LOC)/bin/g++ -fopenmp
# -O3 should be faster than -O2 (default) level optimisation ..
CFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=c++11 -mtune=native -pipe
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L$(LLVM_LOC)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(LLVM_LOC)/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I$(LLVM_LOC)/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include

and now, while I try to install the developer version from the repository, I get

data.table::update.dev.pkg()
Warning: unable to access index for repository https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0:
cannot open URL 'https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/PACKAGES'
Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran:
‘data.table’
Do you want to attempt to install these from sources? (Yes/no/cancel) Yes
installing the source package ‘data.table’

trying URL 'https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/src/contrib/data.table_1.12.9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/gzip' length 5195275 bytes (5.0 MB)

downloaded 5.0 MB

installing source package ‘data.table’ ...
** using staged installation
*** pkg-config is not installed.
*** Compilation will now be attempted and if it works you can ignore this message. However,
*** if compilation fails, try 'locate zlib.h zconf.h' and ensure the zlib development library
*** is installed :
*** deb: zlib1g-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
*** rpm: zlib-devel (Fedora, EPEL, ...)
*** brew: zlib (OSX)
*** Note that zlib is required to compile R itself so you may find the advice in the R-admin
*** guide helpful regarding zlib. On Debian/Ubuntu, zlib1g-dev is a dependency of r-base as
*** shown by 'apt-cache showsrc r-base | grep ^Build-Depends | grep zlib', and therefore
*** 'sudo apt-get build-dep r-base' should be sufficient too.
*** To silence this message, please ensure that :
*** 1) 'pkg-config --exists zlib' succeeds (i.e. $? -eq 0)
*** 2) 'pkg-config --libs zlib' contains -lz
*** Compilation will now be attempted ...
** libs
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c assign.c -o assign.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c between.c -o between.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c bmerge.c -o bmerge.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c chmatch.c -o chmatch.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c cj.c -o cj.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c coalesce.c -o coalesce.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c dogroups.c -o dogroups.o
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/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/gfortran/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -fPIC -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c wrappers.c -o wrappers.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/gfortran/lib -o data.table.so assign.o between.o bmerge.o chmatch.o cj.o coalesce.o dogroups.o fastmean.o fcast.o fifelse.o fmelt.o forder.o frank.o fread.o freadR.o froll.o frollR.o frolladaptive.o fsort.o fwrite.o fwriteR.o gsumm.o ijoin.o init.o inrange.o nafill.o nqrecreateindices.o openmp-utils.o quickselect.o rbindlist.o reorder.o shift.o subset.o transpose.o types.o uniqlist.o utils.o vecseq.o wrappers.o -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
installing to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/00LOCK-data.table/00new/data.table/libs
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘data.table’ in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
shared object ‘datatable.so’ not found
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/data.table’
restoring previous ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/data.table’
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/private/var/folders/z7/r94g4j6j4z33r99np7kwns2nwz14jw/T/RtmppDABFK/downloaded_packages’
R data.table package has been updated to NA (1.12.8)
Warning message:
In utils::install.packages(pkg, repos = repo, type = type, lib = lib, :
installation of package ‘data.table’ had non-zero exit status

The CRAN version works but with single thread. There is a stackoverflow thread about this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59658131/error-package-or-namespace-load-failed-for-data-table-in-library-dynamlib-p which provides no useful answer.

You may need to use gfortran version 6.3.0 available here: https://github.com/fxcoudert/gfortran-for-macOS/releases/tag/6.3

Make sure to update your Makevars file too.
FLIBS=-L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin16/6.3.0 -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm

Sadly, no. The problem persists with both gfortran 6.3.0 and 8.2.0

Did you remove the prior install of data.table? And did you install the CRAN version instead of the developer version?

Yes, I sure did. I tried with all of them and same result: the error with the developer version, successful installation but single thread with CRAN (Thanks for trying to help!)

It looks like there are still a few differences between your Makevars file and mine. Try just replacing your entire Makevars file with what I used:

LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/clang4/lib
FLIBS=-L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin16/6.3.0 -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm
CC=/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX1X=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX98=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX11=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX14=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX17=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++

LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/opt/llvm
CC=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++ -fopenmp
# -O3 should be faster than -O2 (default) level optimisation ..
CFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=c++11 -mtune=native -pipe
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L$(LLVM_LOC)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(LLVM_LOC)/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I$(LLVM_LOC)/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include

restarted, followed your advice, it works now. Thanks!!!

Glad I could help!

Following the above suggestions, I got the following errors

[1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘data.table’ in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
shared object ‘datatable.so’ not found
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed

Any suggestions?

@likanzhan looks to be a different issue then, please create new issue and put all the input and output of attempting to install in newly started R session.

@jangorecki

install.packages("data.table", type = "source",  repos = "https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table")
Installing package into ‘/Users/lzhan/R’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/src/contrib/data.table_1.12.9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/gzip' length 5195275 bytes (5.0 MB)

downloaded 5.0 MB

[1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
* installing *source* package ‘data.table’ ...
** using staged installation
*** pkg-config is not installed.
*** Compilation will now be attempted and if it works you can ignore this message. However,
*** if compilation fails, try 'locate zlib.h zconf.h' and ensure the zlib development library
*** is installed :
***   deb: zlib1g-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
***   rpm: zlib-devel (Fedora, EPEL, ...)
***   brew: zlib (OSX)
*** Note that zlib is required to compile R itself so you may find the advice in the R-admin
*** guide helpful regarding zlib. On Debian/Ubuntu, zlib1g-dev is a dependency of r-base as
*** shown by 'apt-cache showsrc r-base | grep ^Build-Depends | grep zlib', and therefore
*** 'sudo apt-get build-dep r-base' should be sufficient too.
*** To silence this message, please ensure that :
***   1) 'pkg-config --exists zlib' succeeds (i.e. $? -eq 0)
***   2) 'pkg-config --libs zlib' contains -lz
*** Compilation will now be attempted ...
** libs
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/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c frollR.c -o frollR.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c frolladaptive.c -o frolladaptive.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fsort.c -o fsort.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fwrite.c -o fwrite.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c fwriteR.c -o fwriteR.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c gsumm.c -o gsumm.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c ijoin.c -o ijoin.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c init.c -o init.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c inrange.c -o inrange.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c nafill.c -o nafill.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c nqrecreateindices.c -o nqrecreateindices.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c openmp-utils.c -o openmp-utils.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c quickselect.c -o quickselect.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c rbindlist.c -o rbindlist.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c reorder.c -o reorder.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c shift.c -o shift.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c subset.c -o subset.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c transpose.c -o transpose.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c types.c -o types.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c uniqlist.c -o uniqlist.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c utils.c -o utils.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c vecseq.c -o vecseq.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c wrappers.c -o wrappers.o
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib -o data.table.so assign.o between.o bmerge.o chmatch.o cj.o coalesce.o dogroups.o fastmean.o fcast.o fifelse.o fmelt.o forder.o frank.o fread.o freadR.o froll.o frollR.o frolladaptive.o fsort.o fwrite.o fwriteR.o gsumm.o ijoin.o init.o inrange.o nafill.o nqrecreateindices.o openmp-utils.o quickselect.o rbindlist.o reorder.o shift.o subset.o transpose.o types.o uniqlist.o utils.o vecseq.o wrappers.o -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
installing to /Users/lzhan/R/00LOCK-data.table/00new/data.table/libs
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
[1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
[1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
[1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘data.table’ in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
 shared object ‘datatable.so’ not found
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/Users/lzhan/R/data.table’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/qz/0srg88cd2459h1cbn623wrt00000gq/T/Rtmpgzby8h/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("data.table", type = "source", repos = "https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table") :
  installation of package ‘data.table’ had non-zero exit status

Thanks !

The solution below worked for me:

Never mind. I figured it out and am able to install with multithreaded support. I had to change my .R/Makevars file. Here are the new contents:

LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/clang4/lib
FLIBS=-L/usr/local/gfortran/lib/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin16/6.3.0 -L/usr/local/gfortran/lib -lgfortran -lquadmath -lm
CC=/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX1X=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX98=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX11=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX14=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++
CXX17=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++

LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/opt/llvm
CC=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp
CXX=/usr/local/gfortran/bin/g++ -fopenmp
# -O3 should be faster than -O2 (default) level optimisation ..
CFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=c++11 -mtune=native -pipe
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L$(LLVM_LOC)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(LLVM_LOC)/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I$(LLVM_LOC)/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include

@jangorecki It would be helpful to update the Makevars file on the installation wiki -- thank you to you and the Rdatatable team!

For what matters, I had to reinstall from scratch for Catalina. I found out that llvm still does not work, whereas setting the .Makevars with gfortran compilers (as above, but also for version 8.2.0) does the trick.

Never managed to get through the compilation with llvm, both in Mojave and Catalina.

I am also having this issue, using both the .R/Makevars file suggested on the readme page (which reports the standard error at the bottom of that page, and led me here), and with @daynefiler's code above. That generates this output:

> install.packages("data.table", type = "source",
+                  repos = "https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table")
trying URL 'https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/src/contrib/data.table_1.12.9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/gzip' length 5208337 bytes (5.0 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 5.0 MB

* installing *source* package ‘data.table’ ...
** using staged installation
*** pkg-config is not installed.
*** Compilation will now be attempted and if it works you can ignore this message. However,
*** if compilation fails, try 'locate zlib.h zconf.h' and ensure the zlib development library
*** is installed :
***   deb: zlib1g-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
***   rpm: zlib-devel (Fedora, EPEL, ...)
***   brew: zlib (OSX)
*** Note that zlib is required to compile R itself so you may find the advice in the R-admin
*** guide helpful regarding zlib. On Debian/Ubuntu, zlib1g-dev is a dependency of r-base as
*** shown by 'apt-cache showsrc r-base | grep ^Build-Depends | grep zlib', and therefore
*** 'sudo apt-get build-dep r-base' should be sufficient too.
*** To silence this message, please ensure that :
***   1) 'pkg-config --exists zlib' succeeds (i.e. $? -eq 0)
***   2) 'pkg-config --libs zlib' contains -lz
*** Compilation will now be attempted ...
** libs
/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc -fopenmp -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include   -fPIC  -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe -c assign.c -o assign.o
/bin/sh: /usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
make: *** [assign.o] Error 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘data.table’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/data.table’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘data.table’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/private/var/folders/8n/wm3qzjnn2dx4l_lznyk0fthr00_bd1/T/Rtmp1SObio/downloaded_packages’

Installing using the usual install.packages("data.table") works, but results in the multicore issue this fix is trying to address

@FarMar could you check if install.packages("data.table", type="source") works for you? Looks like your compiler is incorrectly defined in Makevars.

@jangorecki That works with the Makevar file removed, but throws the "no OpenMP error", same as the CRAN repo. It fails with the Makevars file detailed by @jrf1111 and in @daynefiler's replies above

@FarMar Before trying to compile data.table with custom Makevars, please ensure it does compile anything. By anything I mean a package with compiled code. Otherwise the problem is not really related to data.table code. Once your compiler can compile anything, then there might a data.table problem when compilation fails.

  1. If you want to follow path of this thread, you probably need to install missing software, or configure paths, so Makevars from here will be specyfing compiler correctly.

  2. Otherwise you can roll back to the point where your compiler works, then try to follow https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Installation wiki, and then when it fails, open new issue with your Makevars and output.

In both cases you need to ensure compilation works on anything.
To check that you can try to install any package with compiled code. I have a "hello world from C" toy package that should be sufficient

install.packages("r.gitlab.ci", repos="https://jangorecki.gitlab.io/r.gitlab.ci")

when installing package from CRAN you need to add type="source" because CRAN has mac binaries, which by default will be used, rather than package sources.

@FarMar note this line of your installation output

/usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc: No such file or directory

That means your machine is configured to look for gcc at that path: /usr/local/gfortran/bin/gcc

You can check if that file exists on your machine. I have gcc there on Mac (but unfortunately I am not fully sure how it got there, hopefully the Installation wiki).

Personally I am using llvm on Mac at /usr/local/opt/llvm which I set up from the Installation wiki.

In either case, it should be defined as CC in your ~/.R/Makevars.

Hope that helps.

Otherwise you can roll back to the point where your compiler works, then try to follow https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Installation wiki, and then when it fails, open new issue with your Makevars and output.

@jangorecki I'm going to head down that route. I seem to break compiling from the first Markevars edit in your readme. I couldn't compile your test with the custom Makevars present, works fine without.

hello everybody -- thanks for this thread! I followed the directions for a macOS installation using a llvm install from brew, but couldn't get this package installed with

install.packages("data.table", type = "source", repos = "https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table")

compilation always failed with this error:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘data.table’ in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib):
 shared object ‘datatable.so’ not found

after some headbanging on my keyboard, I found that this warning proved pretty helpful:

** using staged installation
*** pkg-config is not installed.
*** Compilation will now be attempted and if it works you can ignore this message. However,
*** if compilation fails, try 'locate zlib.h zconf.h' and ensure the zlib development library
*** is installed :
***   deb: zlib1g-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
***   rpm: zlib-devel (Fedora, EPEL, ...)
***   brew: zlib (OSX)
*** Note that zlib is required to compile R itself so you may find the advice in the R-admin
*** guide helpful regarding zlib. On Debian/Ubuntu, zlib1g-dev is a dependency of r-base as
*** shown by 'apt-cache showsrc r-base | grep ^Build-Depends | grep zlib', and therefore
*** 'sudo apt-get build-dep r-base' should be sufficient too.
*** To silence this message, please ensure that :
***   1) 'pkg-config --exists zlib' succeeds (i.e. $? -eq 0)
***   2) 'pkg-config --libs zlib' contains -lz
*** Compilation will now be attempted ...

in my case, locate did not work. I tried locate zlib.h zconf.h and got

WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
To create the database, run the following command:

  sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

my machine is almost new, so perhaps that's why I got this message. at any rate, I ran that launchctl load command and waited a few minutes, after which locate could find several places where zlib.h and zconf.h were located on my system. with that in place, a source installation worked like a charm.

SUMMARY: might be overkill, but what worked for me was to perform these brew installations before installing data.table from source:

brew update
brew install llvm pkg-config zlib gettext

then build the database for locate:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

and use the ~/.R/Makevars file from the installation page with an extra C++ compiler flag for zlib:

LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/opt/llvm
CC=$(LLVM_LOC)/bin/clang -fopenmp
CXX=$(LLVM_LOC)/bin/clang++ -fopenmp
# -O3 should be faster than -O2 (default) level optimisation ..
CFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -mtune=native -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=c++11 -mtune=native -pipe
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib -L$(LLVM_LOC)/lib -Wl,-rpath,$(LLVM_LOC)/libi -L/usr/local/opt/zlib/lib
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I$(LLVM_LOC)/include -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -I/usr/local/opt/zlib/include

hopefully this can save somebody future headache!

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