[Rd] RODBC on Mac & _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:
>        "R CMD check sos" with R 3.3.0 under Mac OS X 10.11.5 ends as
> follows:
>
>
>  >* checking package dependencies ... ERROR
>  >Package suggested but not available: ‘RODBC’
>  >
>  >The suggested packages are required for a complete check.
>  >Checking can be attempted without them by setting the environment
>  >variable _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value.
>
>
>        Unfortunately, "install.packages('RODBC')" says it's only available
> in source form.  When I  attempt to install from sources, it fails as
> follows:
>
>
>  >checking for sqlext.h... no
>  >configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"
>  >ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RODBC’
>  >* removing
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library/RODBC’
>  >Warning in install.packages :
>  >  installation of package ‘RODBC’ had non-zero exit status
>
>
>        The CRAN checks for RODBC also failed for the same reason
> (https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RODBC.html).
>
>
>
>        I'm not sure how to set "the environment variable
> _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value" on my Mac, and I'd rather not do
> it permanently.  I tried various versions of "R CMD check
> _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=FALSE sos_1.3-9.tar.gz" and "R CMD check
> _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=0 sos_1.3-9.tar.gz", none of which worked.
> Somewhere I found a suggestion to try, "R CMD check --as-cran
> sos_1.3-9.tar.gz".  That also failed for me.
>
_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=FALSE R CMD check sos_1.3-9.tar.gz

>
>        Suggestions?
>        Thanks,
>        Spencer Graves
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel



-- 
Joshua Ulrich  |  about.me/joshuaulrich
FOSS Trading  |  www.fosstrading.com
R/Finance 2016 | www.rinfinance.com