Compile error installing highlight package

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I am having a problem installing highlight (yes I am aware this package has been removed from CRAN - I tried to install the latest version here). I am not positive what the problem is, but it seems like there is an issue with the g++ compiling. The error I get is ``` > install.packages("~/Downloads/highlight_0.3.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source", lib="/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library") g++ -arch i386 -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include - ... i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2: No such file or directory i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2: No such file or directory i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2: No such file or directory make: *** [highlight.so] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘highlight’ ``` Session info ``` > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.2 Patched (2013-01-05 r61562) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] t…

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Scott, I fear that Romain let one or two of his packages decay a little.

We still use highlight in the Rcpp* family so when I needed it recently on another machine, I took the SVN version which still builds fine for me -- svn revision 355 of the highlight repo on R-Forge. You need to install both parser and highlight which build just fine for me on Linux.

Highlight is orphaned so if you feel like adopting it...

Compile error installing highlight package

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