Installing littler package on MacOS

3 messages · Simon Urbanek, Naresh Gurbuxani

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Naresh Gurbuxani

Wed, Mar 20, 2019 9:47 AM #

When installing littler using install.packages('littler'), I got below message:

 * new binary r installed in bin/ subdirectory                                        
 * consider adding a symbolic link from, e.g., /usr/local/bin                         
 * on OS X, you may have to name this 'lr' instead 

How can I create this symbolic link?  

Thanks,
Naresh

Wed, Mar 20, 2019 10:14 AM #

Please contact the package author.
My guess would be something like

system(paste("sudo ln -s",shQuote(system.file("bin","r",package="littler")),"/usr/local/bin/lr"))

Cheers,
Simon

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3 days later

Naresh Gurbuxani

Sat, Mar 23, 2019 5:19 PM #

I had separate correspondence with the author of this package, Dirk Eddelbuettel.  Dirk kindly updated the documentation of littler to include additional instructions on creating a symbolic link.

Now my installation of littler works.

Thanks Dirk,
Naresh