From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Mon Jan 16 06:48:18 2006
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:48:18 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Provide both shlib and standard versions of R?
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On Jan 15, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Bo Peng wrote:

> To operate R from python via a Python package rpy, R has to be  
> compiled with --enable-R-shlib.  This is troublesome since none of  
> the binary distributions (except for windows?) is built with this  
> option


That is not true, almost all binaries come with R as shared library -  
it is in fact the default on Mac OS X and Windows. Most Linux  
distributions provide a shared library binary as well.

>  so rpy users have to build R from source. This can be quite a  
> challenge, especially on platforms like macOSX.
>

I guess you didn't even try it, because on OS X it *is* the default!

Simon



[Rd] Provide both shlib and standard versions of R?
Simon Urbanek