If you inted to use RAqua as a CLI app you don't need to do "make install" but only "make install-aqua" and create a couple of symlinks. Otherwise you have conflicts. If you install the RAqua from CRAN and apply the symlinks as explained int eh ReadME file you'll have an equivalent version R as of installing from sources with make install.
I have discussed a bit with Simon on the relocatable possibility for RAqua.
I think we will have something ready for 1.9 and /Library/Frameworks is probably a good place.
Having not a monolithic app means that you should also provide a un-installer, otherwise dragging RAqua icon into the trashcan only removes a couple of bytes but the rest of 50mb still resides in your system (the same for user installed packages).
The other problem we are faced is the startup script R, if you move it you need to take care of $R_HOME and other similar things. Simon seems to have a solution for this.
We will probably be able to use one bumping app only (i.e. only RAqua and not the couple of StartR and RAqua).
To summarize: it's in the todo list of R 1.9.0 (as well as the eventloop problem which should be a cross platform solution tough).
stefano
On Sabato, ott 18, 2003, at 19:27 Europe/Rome, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
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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