Mac OS X R error “ld: warning: directory not found for option”

Question

I am trying to install an R package from source, but getting an error:

* installing *source* package ‘mclust’ ...
** package ‘mclust’ successfully unpacked a         


        

Answer 1

The solution was to re-install problematic packages with Homebrew.

$ brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force openssl
$ brew install openssl

$ brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force readline  
$ brew install readline