On 28/04/2013 18:43, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
Dear list,
The build page at
http://r.research.att.com/building.html
explicitly mentions
<quote>
Note that your binary will require you to install all packages from sources.
</quote>
Is there any documentation on how to compile R from source
in such a way that one can install binary packages from CRAN?
I have read
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#OS-X
but may have overlooked any specific pointers.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Tobias
P.S. target R version currently is R 2.15.3 but if R 3.0.0
would make this easier, then that is a sufficient reason to
move to R 3.0.0.
Why do you want to do that? If you modify the sources binary packages
may not longer work ....
No guarantees, but
- do this for the version of R you currently have installed.
- configure R with --with-aqua, --enable-R-framework (which are the
default, AFAIR).
- install it to the framework.
Then the version you built should be the one used by 'R' and 'R.app':
try it at the command-line.
The default option("pkgType") will be "source", but you will be able to
use options(pkgType="mac.binary") (3.0.0) or "mac.binary.leopard"
(2.15.3). To set the default during compilation, define
PLATFORM_PKGTYPE when building src/main/platform.c
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