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What to do when installing R package xml2 fails on OS X El Capitan
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  • Download the latest binary of the xml2 package from here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xml2/index.html, you want: OS X El Capitan binaries: r-release: xml2_1.1.1.tgz (or similar).
  • Extract to a local dir with tar -xvf xml2_1.1.1.tgz.
  • Find where libxml2 is installed (or install with brew install libxml2), mine is /usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4_3.
  • Set environment variable export LIBXML_INCDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.5 using the path from above.
  • Install to the appropriate library: R CMD INSTALL -l ~/Documents/OMSQ_RAP/packrat/lib/x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0/3.4.1/ .. Note that this installs into a packrat library, if you just want a system install do: R CMD INSTALL .

et voila!

UPDATE: This works for installing xml2, but it doesn't seem to work as a dependency for other packages that require it.

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