From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue May 24 07:46:33 2016
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 06:46:33 +0100
Subject: [Rd] R without graphics
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On 24/05/2016 00:54, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Um... any reason why you don't simply disable aqua? That file is only compiled if you enable aqua - it has really nothing to do with grDevices ...

Also, you can specify a compiler for Objective-C separately and the 
manual advises you to do so (to specify Apple's clang).

> On May 23, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Mick Jordan <mick.jordan at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to configure and build an R without any graphics support. I..e no grDevices or graphics packages?
>>
>> I tried "--with-x=no  --with-cairo=no --with-grDevices=no --with-graphics=no"

Inventing flags does not help you: use configure --help to see what is 
supported (as the manual says).

Reading the manual is faster than posting (and posting Mac-specific Qs 
to R-sig-mac is more likely to get an informed response).

>> but it is still building grDevices.
>>
>> My problem is that I am using experimenting with a compiler that cannot compile the Objective-C file, qdCocoa.m, and I don't need graphics for this experiment.
>>
>> Max OS X El Capitan, R-3.2.4.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mick Jordan


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



[Rd] R without graphics
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