Package Installation

[matthewgson]

I'd like to share my temporary fix to install lfe on my Mac (Big Sur). Hope the issue #41 is resolved soon.

First, make sure if 1) Xcode command line tools and 2) gfortran are installed.
For Mac users, please refer to GNU Fortran compiler at https://mac.r-project.org/tools/

Then build archived package from source using

install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/lfe/lfe_2.8-5.1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type='source') 

You might have to manually install dependent packages first.

install.packages(c('Formula','xtable','sandwich'))

[grantmcdermott]

Nice, but FWIW: MRAN takes daily snapshots of CRAN. So you can install an archived package binaries without all of the extra scaffolding needed for compiling from source on Mac (Xcode etc). E.g. The following should suffice:

install.packages('lfe', repos='https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2020-12-01/', dependencies=TRUE))

[matthewgson]

Back to CRAN, closing.