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

[stefano iacus]

On Jul 6, 2004, at 2:58 AM, James Wettenhall wrote:

> 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.
>
In principle, you just need to provide binaries for packages somewhere  
on the internet packed as .tgz archives. Then every user (no need to be  
admin) can install using the R GUI (and now also from the cmd line  
version of R) in their home after downloading these.
You can also just build these packages, make up an installer, and  
distribute this (assuming, in both cases, that R is already installed)

stefano

> 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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