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

[Simon Urbanek]

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

> On MacOS X, I see a few potential hurdles.  One is that the
> current R installation mechanism seems to require root
> privileges,

Not necessarily. As on any unix system you can build and install R 
without root privileges. Also note that on Mac OS X there are a kind of 
three levels - root, admin and user. Depending on the location you can 
install R using any of them.
Also note that you can build R in a directory different from the 
installation directory (although it's not trivial, since you need to 
fix dylibs). Packaging also doesn't require you to have the files in 
the target position, arbitrary directory is fine, too.

Cheers,
Simon

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