[R-SIG-Mac]R-1.5.1.dmg.tgz

[Don MacQueen]

Jan,

I have some questions from the perspective of someone who would like 
to use the new R dmg, but also uses fink for other things (for 
example, an X11-enabled emacs).

Basically, does fink.pkg overwrite dylibs already installed by 
fink--and if so, what you have in mind for version control?

That is, I currently have a bunch of fink-installed dylibs in 
/sw/lib, used by who-knows-what other packages I installed with fink.

If I install fink.pkg, and it replaces some fink dylibs, and then 
later I run fink update on some package, and it replaces those dylibs 
with newer ones, is that likely to break R? Will you have to keep 
playing "catch-up" with fink, watching for new dylibs, and releasing 
a new R installer when necessary? What if fink gets ahead, and the R 
installer overwrites fink-installed dylib with an older one?

Or, suppose I have an older version of some dylib installed by fink, 
and I overwrite it with a newer one from R's fink.pkg. Then, later 
on, when I run fink update on some fink package, will fink get 
confused because version of the dylib actually there doesn't match 
fink's record of what version is there? Or the version order could be 
reversed.  If that's the case, then it would make sense to update all 
with fink before installing R. Or


Thanks
-Don

>Is available from ftp://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub. It has
>
>--- a new package fink.pkg (replacing the older package sw.pkg), 
>which has dylibs
>      for support of tcltk, netcdf, gnome, XML, readline, jpeg, tiff, 
>png, zlib, bz2. It
>      installs in /sw, and if I have included what I intended to 
>include, you do not
>      need fink anymore. It also has /sw/bin/less.
>
>--- updates for many contributed packages.
>
>Unpack with Expander to get the diskimage R-1.5.1.dmg. Then just click
>and click and click and click and everything will be installed in /usr/local.
>After installing, just say "R" in a terminal window.
>
>In the same directory you also find XInstall.app, which installs a complete
>Xfree86 plus XDarwin on your system, filling /usr/X11R6 and /usr/etc/X11
>with bins and dylibs.
>
>And it has OroborusOSX, the incredible Aqua-like rootless window manager.
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