Thanks a lot Patrick, I have now had some time to play with this in
detail, and have compiled the script I have replicated below. I run
that script post every make install I do.
I am slightly baffled by why R.framework/Resources is hardcoded into
the file
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/bin/R
and why it is not R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources
I see no reason not to. The R in /usr/bin links to
ls -l /usr/bin/R
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 47B Jul 2 11:13 /usr/bin/R -> /Library/
Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
but /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources is already a symlink to /
Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current
If this is changes, one should be able to switch between R versions
just by changing the symlink in Versions/Current as far as I can see
(but there is probably something I have missed). Something might need
to be done for Rscript as well.
This would certainly make it easier for me, and also slightly more
logical as I see it (but I am happy to be educated). Unfortunately I
don't think I can provide a patch to the configure script
Comments?
Kasper
#!/bin/bash
sudo ln -f -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/
R /usr/bin/R-2.8
sudo ln -f -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/
Rscript /usr/bin/Rscript-2.8
sudo ln -f -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/
R /usr/bin/R-devel
sudo ln -f -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/
Rscript /usr/bin/Rscript-devel
sudo rm /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current
sudo ln -f -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8 /Library/
Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current
sudo sed -i tmp "s|R.framework/Resources|R.framework/Versions/2.8/
Resources|" /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/bin/R
sudo sed -i tmp "s|R.framework/Resources|R.framework/Versions/2.9/
Resources|" /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/bin/R
On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:31 , Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
Kasper,
When I want to have multiple versions of R on my mac, I hand edit
the R script to explicitly reference the version of R I want to use.
My guess is that within your /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
Versions/2.9/Resources/bin/R file you have references to /Library/
Frameworks/R.framework/Resources instead of /Library/Frameworks/
R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources and /Library/Frameworks/
R.framework/Resources is a symbolic link to /Library/Frameworks/
R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources.
Patrick
Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
I have two version of R installed in
/Library/Frameworks
version 2.8 patched and version 2.9 (R-devel). I have compiled them
myself. I know of Rswitch that allows me to switch (system-wide)
between the two versions. But I want to be able to use the two
versions at the same time, in different terminals (I am not using
R.app)
I thought I could do this by making a symbolic link from my ~/Bin
folder (I have added this folder to my path), but even though it
seems to point to the right place (ok, something is wrong, so of
course it is not "right"), it still picks up the wrong version
kasper-hansens-macbook:~/> which R-devel
/Users/khansen/Bin/R-devel
kasper-hansens-macbook:~/> ls -l Bin/R-devel
lrwxr-xr-x 1 khansen staff 60B Nov 11 12:02 Bin/R-devel -> /
Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/bin/R
kasper-hansens-macbook:~/> R-devel --version
R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-12-05 r47091)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Right now my system wide R, according to Rswitch, is R-2.8.
What am I missing here? I know I can run R-devel if I just run it
from the directory where I compiled it, so something seems to
happen when I do make install.
Kasper
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