- Details can be found at Installing the GNU compilers on Mac OS X. For OS X 10.7 Lion, you must get Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store. It is free, but you need to supply credit card information in order to have an App Store account. For Xcode 4.2, what you download from.
- The GNU Compiler Collection or GCC for short, comprises front ends for C, Objective-C, C, Java, Fortran, Go and Ada, along with libraries for the mentioned languages. GCC us the main component of the GNU toolchain, it is distributed under the GNU General Public License and plays a central role in.
Mandatory tools
In order to compile R for macOS, you will need the following tools:- Xcode developer tools from Apple
Xcode can be obtained from Apple AppStore and the Xcode developer page. Older versions are available in the 'more' section of the Developer pages (Apple developer account necessary). - GNU Fortran compiler
Unfortunately Xcode doesn't contain a Fortran compiler, therefore you will have to install one. We recommend official GNU Fortran binaries from F.X.Coudert. CRAN High-Sierra builds currently use GNU Gortran 8.2 from that page (note that even though compiled for Mojave it is compatible with High Sierra).gfortran-8.2-Mojave.dmg (ca. 87MB, GNU Fortran 8.2 from F.X.Coudert)
SHA256 hash: 81d379231ba5671a5ef1b7832531f53be5a1c651701a61d87e1d877c4f06d369
This is a copy of GNU Fortran 8.2 build from https://github.com/fxcoudert/gfortran-for-macOS/releasesMake sure you add /usr/local/gfortran/bin to your PATH in order to use this compiler. This can be done, e.g. by
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/gfortran/bin
Gnu Compilers For Mac
NOTE: In order to retain compatibility with native R we recommend using above tools. Although it is possible to compile R using tools from other package managers such as Homebrew, MacPorts or Fink, such binaries are by definition incompatible with macOS native libraries and applications. If you choose one of those package managers, make sure you compile everything![Gnu c++ compiler Gnu c++ compiler](/uploads/1/1/7/8/117887813/279175075.png)
Mandatory libraries
Download gnu gcc compiler for free. Development Tools downloads - GCC by Free Software Foundation, Inc and many more programs are available for instant and free download.
Old versions of R provided fall-back versions of dependend libraries. This is no longer the case, the following libraries are not present in most recent macOS (or are too old) and have to be installed before R can be compiled:- liblzma (aka xz-utils) https://tukaani.org/xz/
- PCRE2https://www.pcre.org/ built with --disable-jit (JIT is buggy on macOS)
- bzip2 may need to be installed if the system version is too old
Note that all binaries used by CRAN are built using the recipes system and thus can be trasparently re-built accordingly.
Optional tools and libraries
The following tools and libraries are optional. R can be compiled without them, but they provide additional capabilities to R.Gnu Compilers For Mac Download
- LaTeX
In order to produce documentation, LaTeX is necessary. It can be obtained from several places, for example as a part of MacTeX. - GNU readline,
Although Mac OS X comes with readline-replacement library, it lack some functionality like backward search etc. Therefore many user prefer GNU readline. For macOS 10.13 download see libs-4 on this site (for older OS X verions see libs). - PNG, JPEG and TIFF libraries
If bitmap manipulation libraries are present, R will add graphics device support for those bitmap formats. There are also other package that take advantage of PNG and JPEG, so it is in general a good idea to install them.Again, they are available in /libs-4 (new) and /libs (old). - cairo
R support for cairo graphics can be enabled by installing cario and dependent libraries (also provided in /libs-4). - subversion
If you want to check out R from the SVN repository, you will need subversion. It was included in Xcode 9 and earlier, but is no longer. We are providing a signed binary:
subversion-1.14.0-darwin15.6.tar.gz(SHA1: 9dab09d6cf608bea6224bdc3ec3e95893e4e9800)
which works on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and higher, is relocatable, i.e., you can put it anywhere you want since it only depends on system libraries.
(Static build with: apr-1.7.0, apr-util-1.6.1, openssl-1.1.1g, serf-1.3.9, sqlite-3.33.0, subversion-1.14.0)
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)
Old version of this page for much older OS X versions.