[R-SIG-Mac] 64-bit build from source?

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Wed Apr 23 03:50:25 CEST 2008


On Apr 22, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Robert Terwilliger wrote:

> The compile and install seemed to go fine, but then I could not find
> an executable. I expected it to be in /usr/local/bin. I looked also in
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current and found libraries
> but no executable.
>
> Any ideas?
>

See R for Mac FAQ 3 "Command line version of R".

Relative to where you built it it's
bin/R
and if you installed it as a framework then it's in
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R

Cheers,
S


> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Robert Terwilliger wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dear R-Mac people,
>>>
>>> If I build R (2.7.0) from source on a 64-bit Mac, will it be a 64- 
>>> bit
>>> app? I don't care about the GUI.........
>>>
>>
>> Only if you specify '-arch x86_64'  My config.site is
>>
>> CC="gcc -arch x86_64"
>> OBJC=$CC
>> F77="gfortran -arch x86_64"
>> FC=$F77
>>
>> You probably want
>>
>> ./configure --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack
>>
>> for speed, and --with-aqua if you want to use the quartz() device  
>> (which
>> unlike earlier versions is fine from the command line version of R).
>>
>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Robert Terwilliger
>>>
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>>
>> --
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