[R-SIG-Mac] install.libs error

[Naresh Gurbuxani]

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> On Mar 31, 2025, at 5:13 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 31, 2025, at 10:04 PM, Naresh Gurbuxani <naresh_gurbuxani using hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Simon,
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>> Website mac.r-project.org/tools/ lists mandatory libraries.  In the next paragraph, it has a link to “binaries of libraries and tools for Mac OS page”.  Clicking on the link takes user to mac.r-project.org/bin.  Here the only method of install described is via install.libs().  By using install.libs(), I found out that binaries (for my Intel Mac) are located at mac.r-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/.  But if I did not already have R installed, I would not be able to go to this location.  
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> You can always go directly to the binaries - the links are right on the front page. The R script is just a convenience method to resolve dependencies if you have complex requirements so you don't have to do it yourself. Besides, you can always grab R from CRAN to bootstrap it if that's what you are going for.
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> If there is a way to improve the documentation to make it clearer, I'm open to suggestions.
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In the Index section, there is a link to “Sources for tools and binaries”.  But on the tools page, there are only links to liblzma and PCRE2 websites.  Here you can also provide links to binaries above.

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>> On the page mac.r-project.org/bin, perhaps you can provide links to the binaries location.  Currently the only links provided are to liblzma and PCRE2 homepages.  When downloading from those locations, user may need to run ./configure, make, and make install.  
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>> I am only starting out with QuantLib, so not sure if intraday feature is widely used.  
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> Well, in that case I don't understand why you did all the work of recompiling it as that is then entirely unnecessary - all you needed to do was to simply install it from CRAN with
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> install.packages("RQuantLib")
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> I'm sure I must be missing something here ...
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I just wanted a “clean” or “complete” package install, not knowing how much trouble that would create.  A new user can be unsettled by warnings coming from loading a package.

> Cheers,
> Simon
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