Having recently installed the the binary OS X R.framework package I have 2 suggestions: 1. Symlinks are created for both ../Resources/man1/R.1 and Rscript.1 in the /usr/local/man/man1 directory. 2. The 2 symlinks R and Rscript which are created in /usr/bin rather be created in /usr/local/bin if the directory exists. Thanks John
R.framework installation package suggestions
2 messages · John Purnell, Simon Urbanek
John,
On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:20 AM, John Purnell wrote:
Having recently installed the the binary OS X R.framework package I have 2 suggestions: 1. Symlinks are created for both ../Resources/man1/R.1 and Rscript.1 in the /usr/local/man/man1 directory. 2. The 2 symlinks R and Rscript which are created in /usr/bin rather be created in /usr/local/bin if the directory exists.
/usr/local/bin is by default *not* on PATH so for all regular Mac users both of the above is useless. If you are managing your own /usr/ local then there is nothing preventing you from creating the synlinks to /usr/bin (not that I understand why you would want that but that's another story ...). However, from your comment I gather it may be worthwhile to symlink the man pages to /usr/share/man ... Thanks, Simon