Can't find gfortran 4.8 to build package

Question

I\'m trying to install the deldir package in R via install.packages(\"deldir\",type = \'source\') but am getting the following error message (this is O

Answer 1

I had your same problem (in OS X Yosemite), and (unfortunately) painstakingly recreated your symlink "partial solution". Finally, I was able to solve the issue by forgetting about linking or aliasing and just downgrading to gfortran-4.8.

I had installed the newer version with brew, so for me this entailed uninstalling

brew uninstall gcc

and then following the instructions here to install 4.8.2, i.e.

curl -O http://r.research.att.com/libs/gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2
sudo tar fvxz gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 -C /

It still threw up some warnings but at least I got a successful installation of deldir, which I needed to run pgirmess.