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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 07/02/2017 15:26, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com
> <mailto:csardi.gabor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
>     <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>     [...]
>
>         Well, you have missed the point.  R itself allows you to do
>         that: do read 'R Installation and Administration'.
>
>
>     [...]
>
>         For use as 'R' from a terminal, multiple CRAN distributions (of
>         3.x.y for different 'x') can easily be installed and used
>         together: that is §4.3 of the manual.
>
>
>     Yes, I indeed missed this. Thanks much for the explanation!
>
>
> One more question. I suppose if I install the various minor versions on
> different disks (e.g. I want 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 as well), that would work
> fine as well, and I don't even need pkgutil --forget? Or am I missing
> something?

You can install in different locations.  I have never tried using 
different 'volumes' (in Apple parlance), but AFAIK Apple treats them 
separately (with separate records of packages installed).


-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford