Building R for MacOS X

The new R-build on http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub (to be
posted later this week) consists of

1. R-devel, with binaries for close to 500 packages. This
does not support X11 and AquaTclTk , and for its GUI it uses
either Terminal.app or Emacs.app (or one of the Tck/Tk
GUI's). Also comes with RGtk. Both limmaGUI and
affyImGUI are included.

2. R-patched, with binaries for only the base and recommended
packages. This comes with X11 support and has X11 Tcl/Tk.
Its GUI can be R.app or Terminal.app or Emacs.app, but from
Terminal or Emacs you cannot use Quartz graphics.

You can switch between the two by soft linking

/Library/Framework/R.framework/Versions/Current

to either the 1.9.1 or the 2.0.0 directory.

As for your self-build question, just configure using  
--prefix=~/Library/Frameworks
instead of /Library/Frameworks. Also, as far as I know, installation of
R requires admin privileges, not root privileges. Properly configured
OS X installations do not even have a root account. Now if you intend to
run R off a server, you will need the admin password from IT, of course.

--- Jan

Hi,

I'm interested in learning about building R for MacOS X, in the
hope that I can build a customized installation wizard
providing R, several R packages, and some Tcl/Tk extensions
required by my microarray GUI's limmaGUI and affylmGUI.  I have
done this for Windows, and users have found it very useful, as
many don't have R to start with or they don't have a recent
version of R.

On MacOS X, I see a few potential hurdles.  One is that the
current R installation mechanism seems to require root
privileges, which my I.T. staff will not allow me to have, so it
would be hard to test a wizard after I build it unless I have to
call for I.T. assistance every time.  On Windows, root
privileges are recommended, but you can install R without them
(just missing out on a few inessential Registry entries).

I'd appreciate any thoughts about this.

Regards,
James

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