Error installing package in R Studio on Mac: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...)

RStudio IDE
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Hello all. I'm having difficulty loading the Causal Impact library on R Studio on my laptop. As context, I'm using:

  • Macbook Pro with an M3 Pro chip and 36 GB memory

  • macOS Sonoma 14.7

  • R 4.4.1, R Studio 2024.09.0+375.

Here are my code and the results of each line:

install.packages("CausalImpact")

The following package(s) will be installed:
- CausalImpact [1.3.0]
These packages will be installed into "~/Documents/R/Projects/renv/library/macos/R-4.4/aarch64-apple-darwin20".

Do you want to proceed? [Y/n]: Y

# Installing packages --------------------------------------------------------
- Installing CausalImpact ...                   OK [linked from cache]
Successfully installed 1 package in 17 milliseconds.

library(CausalImpact)

Loading required package: bsts
Loading required package: BoomSpikeSlab
Loading required package: Boom

Attaching package: ‘Boom’

The following object is masked from ‘package:stats’:

    rWishart

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘BoomSpikeSlab’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/Users/JaimeColmenares/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/renv/cache/v5/macos/R-4.4/aarch64-apple-darwin20/BoomSpikeSlab/1.2.6/65246c474323d25ac2357fa3bf40174b/BoomSpikeSlab/libs/BoomSpikeSlab.so':
  dlopen(/Users/JaimeColmenares/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/renv/cache/v5/macos/R-4.4/aarch64-apple-darwin20/BoomSpikeSlab/1.2.6/65246c474323d25ac2357fa3bf40174b/BoomSpikeSlab/libs/BoomSpikeSlab.so, 0x0006): symbol not found in flat namespace '__ZN4BOOM9GlobalRng3rngE'
Error: package ‘BoomSpikeSlab’ could not be loaded

How can I resolve this? Thanks in advance!!

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Seems like you have a broken installation of the BoomSpikeSlab package, possibly some of its system dependencies are missing. Try to reinstall BoomSpikeSlab first.

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Hi Gabor, thanks for being willing to help!

I tried the following and neither resolved the problem:

  • updating the BoomSpikeSlab package
  • removing and installing BoomSpikeSlab again

Any other ideas on how I can resolve this?

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Seems like you are compiling packages from source. When you do that on macOS, you'll need to install their required system packages.

But this error seems more like a system incompatibility than a system error. First I would try to install it without renv, to see if the issue is renv-specific.