pl/R and MacOS X using R binary

Sean Davis wrote:

On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Please do consult the posting guide as to the right place.  (I've 
moved this to R-devel and included Joe Conway. Joe: perhaps you 
could make you email address more readily available in the PL/R 
pages.)

Yes, I'll do that. Sorry for the confusion.

Actually, Joe has been quite helpful in this regard and the question 
has come up on his pl/R email list before, but without resolution, as 
far as I could tell (but again, I could be sadly mistaken).  I 
thought that posting to r-help (with the caveat that I was perhaps 
off-topic) would clarify things for me a bit.  It has done just that 
and I really appreciate your willingness to answer the off-topic post 
and move it to the appropriate forum.

The Makefile for PL/R actually does attempt to use the dylib, and at 
one point (at least) worked according to a report that I received. 
There have been a couple of reported issues with MacOS X since then 
though. Part of my problem in resolving this has been lack of an OS X 
machine that I can debug on.

Joe

p.s. I apologize in advance for slow responses -- I just arrived 9 
timezones away from home at the start of a 2 week business trip.