[R-SIG-Mac]Re: R on X

[Stefano Iacus]

changed the note on CRAN just now.

stefano

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 06:26 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> Martin
>
> gifi does not have anonymous ftp any more, so yes, the CRAN link  
> should be changed to
> http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub
>
> the binaries you have must be decompressed in /usr/local/lib, so
>
> sudo mv R-1.6.1.tar.gz /usr/local/lib
> sudo tar zxvf R-1.6.1.tar,gz
>
> then make a symbolic link
>
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R /usr/local/bin/R
>
> i'll upload an updated set today which must be unpacked in the root
> directory, i.e. in /
>
> --- Jan
>
> On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 12:14 AM, Martin Renner wrote:
>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> I just found your compiled version of R-1.6.1 on your website. All I  
>> could find on CRAN is a link to ftp://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub/  - I  
>> tried several times but coudln't access this site (could not set  
>> public privileges). Maybe you could update the link on CRAN or get  
>> the ftp server fixed? It would help people after me - thank you.  
>> (first I tried to build R from source with g77 but got an error  
>> 'no-segfault.R' ...kCGErrorIllegalArgument : initCGDisplayState:  
>> cannot map display interlocks.)
>>
>> I'm not very familiar with Unix (yet?) - how do I install the  
>> binaries once they are downloaded and decompressed? The R manual  
>> states that there are platform-specific methods.
>>
>> Thank you for all your work for the Mac community,
>>
>> 	Martin
>>
>>
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