[R-SIG-Mac] Missing R and RScript on /usr/bin/ on Big Sur

[Luis Puerto]

Hey! 

Thanks a lot for the info. Yeah, I've manually symbolinked them. But I just wanted to know if this was documented or it was an error on my side. 

Cheers!
Luis

> On 18 Jan 2021, at 07:34, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 17/01/2021 23:01, Luis Puerto wrote:
>> Hey!
>> I was and I realized after sending the email. But that path doesn't have also any R symbolic link either.
>> Can anyone tell me how many symbolic links to R binaries are there?
> 
> From the manual
> 
> 'The installer puts links to R and Rscript in /usr/local/bin. If these are missing (as they may be under ‘Big Sur’), you can run directly the copies in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/.'
> 
> (Footnote 25 in R-admin).
> 
> We don't know the exact circumstances when the installer fails (it worked for both my Big Sur machines, one upgraded and one new), but you can probably for link yourself.
> 
>> Thanks!
>> Cheers!
>> Luis
>>> On 17 Jan 2021, at 23:34, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 17/01/2021 5:15 p.m., Luis Puerto wrote:
>>>> Hey!
>>>> I just installed the binary from cran for R-4.0.3 and for some reason I'm missing the R and RScript commands on terminal. I'm on Big Sur 11.1 and when I check if there are symbol links on /usr/bin/ related to R I find none.
>>>> I'm not the only one https://stackoverflow.com/a/64920581/6888648 <https://stackoverflow.com/a/64920581/6888648>
>>>> Does anyone experience this behavior too? If you have updated perhaps you still have those from previous releases, but in case this was a clean install since I decided to change from homebrew to the binary form cran.
>>> 
>>> I'm not on Big Sur, but I see this:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> $ which R
>>> /usr/local/bin/R
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So maybe you're looking in the wrong place?
>>> 
>>> Duncan Murdoch
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