[R] R and OS X

[Etsuko Moriyama]

I had the same problem when I first installed R (Darwin version) on my 
OS X.  Then I installed FINK.  After that only what I had to manually 
install was "libreadline.4.dylib".  I didn't even have to do an symbolic 
link.  You can also install command line mozilla (still version 0.98, 
though) to use for R help from FINK (with symlink to netscape).  Some 
Java script on the first page of help don't work.  But individual help 
page works.  When the new command line mozilla is released I hope those 
java scripts work, too.

Etsuko

On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 04:03 AM, owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 
wrote:

>
>
> Tristan Lorino wrote:
>>
>>>  Dears users,
>>>  I'm trying to run R on a computer with OS X. I installed the R folder
>>>  and the dylibs, where they must be installed. I updated my path, and
>>>  R runs but tells me :
>>>
>>>  dyld: /usr/local/R-1.4.0/lib/R/bin/R.bin version mismatch for
>>>  library: /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version of user: 1.1.3
>>>  greater than library's version: 1.0.0)
>>>
>>>  The only thing I didn't do -- because I don't know how one can do
>>>  this -- is to put /sw/lib first in the
>>>  DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable.
>
> Hello Tristan,
>
>
> I think your problem may be a different one. See item 5 of my
> R installation notes below. (I copy the whole lot as other items
> may be of interest also.)
>
> The ReadMe.txt file of the Darwin installation says this:
> "If R asks for a
> version of any of these dylibs which is named slightly differently
> (for instance libz.1.dylib), then just put in a symbolic link in 
> /sw/lib,
> i.e. "ln -s libz.1.1.3.dylib libz.1.dylib"."
>
> This is what I had to do to make R work.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
>
> 020328
>
> 1. Installed the binary files for R-1.4.0 today (now Thursday).
> 2. tried to run it today, got dyld errors.
> 3. Copied all the .dylibs into /sw/lib, as instructed.
> 4. Got dyld errors again.
> 5. Made symbolic links as instructed.
> 6. Now works, but gives runtime error:
> /usr/local/R-1.4.0/lib/R/bin/pager: no such file or directory: 
> /sw/bin/less
> 7. Fixed this by putting the correct path to "less" in
> /usr/local/R-1.4.0/lib/R/etc/Renviron
> 8. Now get postscript error.
> 9. Restart then OK.
> 10. Forgot to say that I tar'd the /sw/lib directory, and it is (I hope)
> in this here directory now.
>
> 020409
>
> 1. Tried to install the "as.date" etc. functions in the "date" package,
> as follows:
> (a)  Got date_1.2-12.tar.gz on desktop.
> (b)  R CMD INSTALL date
>
> 2. Got errors saying gcc not found - actually need to pick up cc.
> 3. Tracked down the problem to
> 	/usr/local/R-1.4.0/lib/R/etc/Makeconf
> .. so copied this to Makeconf_as_installed and edited original
> to change "gcc" to "cc" in both places.
>
> 4. Got another error, saying couldn't find perl.
> 5. Tracked down the problem to
> 	/usr/local/R-1.4.0/lib/R/etc/Renviron
> .. so copied this to Renviron_as_installed and edited original
> to change "PERL=${PERL-/usr/local/bin/perl}" to 
> "PERL=${PERL-/usr/bin/perl}"
> at its only occurence.
>
> 6. Installation then OK.
>
> 7. Ran R, did "library()" and saw "date" was there. Did "library(date)" 
> and
> accessed the date things OK. Can now do things like:
>
>> mdy.date(10,29,65)
> [1] 29Oct65
>
>> mdy.date(4,9,2002) - mdy.date(10,29,65)
> [1] 13311
>
>> as.integer( mdy.date(10,31,1970) )
> [1] 3956
>
>
>
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Etsuko Moriyama
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0660

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