[R-SIG-Mac] RSPython

[Jan de Leeuw]

Instead of the usual round of self-flagellation, I decided to try to  
install
RSPython today. NB: this is on OS X 10.4.3 with gcc-4.0.1, apple version
5226, and R 2.3.0 r35814.

Turns out one has to do some horrible things. Some to get it to install,
some to get it to run. To install you have to create a dummy libutil.a.
I did this by making a symbolic link libutil.a in /usr/local/lib to  
libpng.a.
Why not ?

Then you have to create another link in ${R_HOME}/libs to create
libR.so to point to libR.dylib.

To run you have to create another symbolic link RSInternal.so in $ 
{R_HOME}/library/RSPython/libs
pointing to RSPython.so.

Of course making copies instead of links will do as well.

This is enough to run (the bundled) Python from R, not R from Python  
(yet).

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Statistics;
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