From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu  Sat Oct 18 19:27:52 2003
From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw)
Date: Sat Oct 18 19:26:55 2003
Subject: [Rd] libR.dylib on OS X
Message-ID: <672F8BC0-0190-11D8-9A19-000A95A67E82@stat.ucla.edu>

If one installs the CLI and RAqua versions, by saying both "make  
install"
and "make install-aqua", then packages that use libR.dylib get their
symbols from  
/Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/Frameworks/libR.dylib
and not from /usr/local/lib/R/bin/libR.dylib.

That's unfortunate, because the first is likely to change, and the  
second is not.
For instance, what happens if Stefano succeeds in constructing an  
StartR.app
which can sit anywhere on the system (as a Mac application should) ?

Again, these types of problems can be circumvented by putting all of R,
except the CLI and Aqua front ends, in /Library/Frameworks. As in  
MacPython
or in TclTklAqua. If you distribute an installer package, you don't need
a monolithic application, and you avoid useless duplications and  
problems
with hard-coded paths.
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[Rd] libR.dylib on OS X
Jan de Leeuw