Compile error installing highlight package

Question

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] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] parser_0.1      codetools_0.2-8 Rcpp_0.10.2    

Answer 1

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...