[R] Installing R 1.9.0 on OSX
Brian Beckage
Brian.Beckage at uvm.edu
Sat May 8 22:19:27 CEST 2004
I've downloaded and installed R 1.9.0 under OS X 10.3.3. I then
removed my previous R 1.8.0 installation by following the
instructions in the readme file, e.g.,
1. drag the "StartR" icon into the Trash;
2) go inside your Home directory and search for the Library folder.
Inside the Library folder in your Home directory you'll
find a RAqua directory: drag the RAqua folder into the Trash:
3) empty the Trash.
and I removed the directory /usr/local/lib/R and the file
/usr/local/bin/R as instructed.
R 1.9.0 will start up from the applications window. Since I usually
run R using Xemacs and X11, I used the following commands (under zsh)
to set up a symbolic link:
> sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R /usr/local/bin/R
which gives me an error that the file /usr/local/bin/R does not
exist, which of course, it doesn't as I deleted it as described
above. R will start up fine if I use
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
In addition, usr/local/bin does exist and is on the search path.
> echo $PATH
>/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/brianbeckage:/usr/X11R6/bin:.:/Users/brianbeckage/bin:/usr/local/bin
How do I correctly set up the symbolic link?
Thanks for you help,
Brian
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