Issues on Mac OS X

Installing TBB and RcppParallel

Developed by Gabriel Hoffman

Run on 2026-01-02 20:44:55

GenomicDataStream runs analyses across multiple cores in parallel using Threading Building Blocks in oneTBB. This is available in R using RcppParallel. This package usually installs without an issue, but if it fails you can use the package after modifying the paths:

Install TBB using brew

brew install tbb

Install RcppParallel with TBB path

DIR = system("echo $(brew --prefix tbb)", intern=TRUE)
TBB_INC = paste(DIR, "include/", sep='/')
TBB_LIB = paste(DIR, "lib/", sep='/')

.Internal(Sys.setenv("TBB", DIR))
.Internal(Sys.setenv("TBB_INC", TBB_INC))
.Internal(Sys.setenv("TBB_LIB", TBB_LIB))

install.packages("RcppParallel")

Session info

## R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
## Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin23.6.0
## Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.7.1
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS/LAPACK: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/openblas/0.3.30/lib/libopenblasp-r0.3.30.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0
## 
## locale:
## [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
## 
## time zone: America/New_York
## tzcode source: internal
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] digest_0.6.39     desc_1.4.3        R6_2.6.1          fastmap_1.2.0     xfun_0.55        
##  [6] cachem_1.1.0      knitr_1.51        htmltools_0.5.9   rmarkdown_2.30    lifecycle_1.0.4  
## [11] cli_3.6.5         sass_0.4.10       pkgdown_2.2.0     textshaping_1.0.4 jquerylib_0.1.4  
## [16] systemfonts_1.3.1 compiler_4.5.1    tools_4.5.1       ragg_1.5.0        bslib_0.9.0      
## [21] evaluate_1.0.5    yaml_2.3.12       otel_0.2.0        jsonlite_2.0.0    rlang_1.1.6      
## [26] fs_1.6.6          htmlwidgets_1.6.4

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