[R-SIG-Mac] ?? Build/install x86_64 R under user home dir (non-root) on Mac OS X

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You still sent HTML mail, and we got a nigh-unreadable version with 
lots of blank lines.

Your OS *is* for i386: a properly functioning 64-bit buils on MacIntel 
reports

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-02-27 r48020)
i386-apple-darwin9.6.0

locale:
C/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

(I have LC_COLLATE set to C).  That it is 64-bit is seen from

> .Machine$sizeof.pointer
[1] 8

Like Solaris and some other OSes, Darwin can run 32- and 64-bit code 
on the same basically 32-bit OS.  Some OSes do it the other way 
around, so e.g. Windows and Linux run a 32-bit subsystem with a 64-bit 
kernel.

I suspect you do have s 64-bit build of R running on your 32-bit OS.


On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Ping-Hsun Hsieh wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I am sending the same email again.
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> It seems that the text coding of my earlier email has something wrong.
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> Please discard the earlier one.
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> I am sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you.
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> Thanks,
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> Ping-Hsun(Mike)
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> Dear all,
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> I have been looking for solutions for my problem on installing x86_64 R under my home directory
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> It seems to me that the best described answer is on http://r.research.att.com/building.html
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> I followed pretty much every step on the page, and I do get R installed in my home directory, but it is a i386 version, not a x86_64.
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> Here are what I have for installation.
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> ## User privilege:
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> Normal user with root privilege…
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> ## System:
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> Mac OS X/Leopard 10.5.6/Intel Xeon/ X code (latest ver.) installed
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> ## Source codes:
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> “R-2.8.1.tar.gz”, downloaded from http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.8.1.tar.gz
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> ## my configure:
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> $./configure –prefix=$HOME r_arch=x86_64 \
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> CC="gcc -arch x86_64 -std=gnu99" \
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> CXX="g++ -arch x86_64" \
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> OBJC="gcc -arch x86_64" \
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> F77="gfortran -arch x86_64" \
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> FC="gfortran -arch x86_64" \
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> --with-system-zlib \
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> --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack
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> ## make and install
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> $make
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> $make install
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> One clue might be helpful is that after running the configure, there is a sentence said
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> “R is now configured for i386-apple-darwin9.6.0”
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> Not sure why it is configured for i386 though.
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> Besides, I also tried and ran the entire codes under copy/paste guide on the same page http://r.research.att.com/building.html, but still got the same result.
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> ## The following is the sessionInfo() of R
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>> sessionInfo()
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> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
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> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
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> locale:
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> C
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> attached base packages:
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> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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> ## end of sessionInfo()
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> Any suggestion or comments?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Ping-Hsun(Mike)
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