[Rd] Failed installation on Mac OSX 10.3 (PR#5697)

[Brian Beckage]

I did read the readme.txt but it said you 'should' install the libreadline
so my impression was that it was recommended but not necessary.
Undoubtedly, an oversight on my part.

Brian



On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, stefano iacus wrote:

> You should read the readme.txt file which says that you have to install
> the libreadline with the provided .pkg archive that comes with
> RAqua.dmg.
> stefano
>
> On Giovedì, dic 11, 2003, at 16:39 Europe/Rome, Brian.Beckage at uvm.edu
> wrote:
>
> > I've installed R 1.8.1 on OSX 10.3 (Panther) using the RAqua.pkg and
> > all indications were that the installation was successful.  However,
> > after double clicking the R icon in the Applications folder, nothing
> > appears to happen.  The following message appears on the console:
> >
> > Mac OS X Version 10.3 (Build 7B85)
> > 2003-12-11 08:45:31 -0500
> > prefs written
> > dyld: /Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/MacOS/RAqua can't
> > open library: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.4.3.dylib  (No such file or
> > directory, errno = 2)
> >
> >
> > When I check /usr/local/ there is no 'lib' folder, only the 'bin'
> > folder.  I checked the FAQ's and the bug reports and this problem was
> > reported by at least one other person (bug report id 5529) but no
> > solution has been put forward that I could find.
> >
> > Do the other packages that come with the download (e.g.,
> > j_libreadlne.pkg, j_tcltk.pkg, j_libxml2.pkg) need to be installed?
> > Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Brian
> >
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