[R-SIG-Mac] Building R for MacOS X

[James Wettenhall]

Hi,

I'm interested in learning about building R for MacOS X, in the 
hope that I can build a customized installation wizard 
providing R, several R packages, and some Tcl/Tk extensions 
required by my microarray GUI's limmaGUI and affylmGUI.  I have 
done this for Windows, and users have found it very useful, as 
many don't have R to start with or they don't have a recent 
version of R.  

On MacOS X, I see a few potential hurdles.  One is that the 
current R installation mechanism seems to require root 
privileges, which my I.T. staff will not allow me to have, so it 
would be hard to test a wizard after I build it unless I have to 
call for I.T. assistance every time.  On Windows, root 
privileges are recommended, but you can install R without them 
(just missing out on a few inessential Registry entries).

I'd appreciate any thoughts about this.

Regards,
James

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