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

[Jan de Leeuw]

Overwriting by fink with newer versions is no problem. Overwriting
by R of newer fink versions by older versions is not a problem now,
but may become one. So, to be on the save side, if you also use fink
for other purposes you install the other packages and not the fink
package (it's optional anyway). Also, fink will not get confused
because it does not check for dylibs but for debs.

My reasoning is that if people actually use fink, they have the
developer package installed, and they can compile their own R
(either from fink or from source).

Don MacQueen wrote:
> 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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