Error while starting Rserve on Mac OS X Maverick
macos, r, rserve
Solution
I also had this problem today.
Rserve is using openSSL library that is deprecated in mac OS X 10.7 Lion. This causes the error: `installation of package ‘Rserve’ had non-zero exit status` So, I couldn't install Rserve by `install.packages('Rserve') in R console.
To avoid this, the binaries for mavericks was installable for me:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/
I downloaded `Rserve_1.7-3.tgz` and did `R CMD INSTALL Rserve_1.7-3.tgz` Then I could run Rserve by `library(Rserve)` and `Rserve()` in R console.
It seems that latest version of `Rserve 1.8` is not available.(?)
Problem
I am trying to start Rserve using Rserve() command in R console but I am getting an error as `/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R: line 141: exec: sh: not found` I have Mac OSX Maverick. I installed R version 3.1.0. After this I tried to install Rserve using command install.packages("Rserve") after which in red color the message displayed was ``` trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/Rserve_1.7-3.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 329829 bytes (322 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 322 Kb ``` After this I gave command library(Rserve) in R console and no error came but then when I gave command Rserve() to start the server I got the error which I have mentioned above. I am unable to understand why this error is coming. Is it because Rserve is not installed successfully? How else the Rserve can be installed? I tried to install Rserve through source package also. I downloaded the source package from rforge website and when I gave the command install.packages("Rserve", type = "source") I got the error as: `installation of package ‘Rserve’ had non-zero exit status` Any help will be great!