[R-SIG-Mac] Feature request: install R in ~/Library/Frameworks

[David Winsemius]

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 1:11 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, that's not an option for me, I need an R installation that is
> binary compatible with CRAN.
> 
> I realized that I can maybe use
> 
> ./configure --enable-R-framework=~/Library/Frameworks
> 
> I am trying this right now.
> 

I'm a bit confused. The bog-standard distribution of R has installed it (as a sub-directory) of ~/Library/Frameworks for many versions.

More specifically it is placed in this subdirectory:

 /Library/Frameworks/R.framework

The Revolution R distribution for the Mac also uses this location (and basically copies the installation script that is part of the CRAN version.)

-- 
David.

> Gabor
> 
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:02 AM, 美彦 馬場 <babayoshihiko at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2017, at 17:46, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I realize that this is not the typical use case on macOS, but for my
>> work,
>>> it would be great to be able to install R into ~/Library/Frameworks.
>>> 
>>> This would allow having different R versions for different users.
>>> 
>>> I am not sure how difficult this would be to implement. I can see that
>> some
>>> paths in scripts and makefiles are hardwired to /Library/Frameworks. Is
>>> there anything more, perhaps in the binaries as well?
>> 
>> 
>> I install R with Fink, which allows you to install R-3.3, R-3.2 and
>> R-3.1.  Each of them looks for files in /sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3,
>> 3.2 and 3.1 respectively.  Also, CRAN packages for different R versions are
>> installed separately.
>> 
>> --
>> BABA
>> 
>> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA