If you want to install R on Darwin you must do a number of other things. Not all of it is necessary, but most of it will make your life easier (after a while), and it will make your R faster. Of course you may decide to wait on R-1.4.0. a. Install Fink from fink.sourceforge.net. Use Fink to install libz, libreadline, atlas, libjpeg, libpng, f2c, dlcompat, tcl/tk, and maybe f77/g77. Make sure you source the init.csh file that comes with Fink. This sets /sw/bin at the beginning of your path and it sets DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. You could also install all of Gnome from Fink (if you want to use --gui=gnome in R). b. Become an Apple developer (for free) and download and install the Apple developer tools. Go to www.apple.com/developer or connect.apple.com c. Download the latest version of R-1.3.1 from gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R/builds and install in /usr/local d. See if it works. If it complains about missing libraries, try otool -L /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.bin and see what it wants. Provide the missing stuff from either Fink or gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R/dylibs. In the same may you can use otool -L to see what the tcl/tk or gnome modules are looking for, and the various precompiled packages. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ========================================================
i get a lot of questions on this ...
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