On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 07/02/2017 15:26, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com >> <mailto:csardi.ga...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley >> <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>> wrote: >> [...] >> >> Well, you have missed the point. R itself allows you to do >> that: do read 'R Installation and Administration'. >> >> >> [...] >> >> For use as 'R' from a terminal, multiple CRAN distributions (of >> 3.x.y for different 'x') can easily be installed and used >> together: that is §4.3 of the manual. >> >> >> Yes, I indeed missed this. Thanks much for the explanation! >> >> >> One more question. I suppose if I install the various minor versions on >> different disks (e.g. I want 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 as well), that would work >> fine as well, and I don't even need pkgutil --forget? Or am I missing >> something? >> > > You can install in different locations. I have never tried using > different 'volumes' (in Apple parlance), but AFAIK Apple treats them > separately (with separate records of packages installed). Maybe I am missing the point again, but just installing in different locations does not seem to work. E.g.: ❯ installer -pkg tmp/R-3.3.2.pkg -target CurrentUserHomeDirectory installer: Package name is R 3.3.2 for Mac OS X 10.9 or higher (Mavericks build) installer: Upgrading at base path /Users/gaborcsardi installer: The upgrade was successful. ❯ grep Library/Frameworks/R.framework Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R R_HOME_DIR=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources R_SHARE_DIR=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share R_INCLUDE_DIR=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include R_DOC_DIR=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/doc So the installed version still refers to /Library. If there is nothing there, then the version in ~/Library fails, of course: ❯ Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R: line 238: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory Maybe you mean recompiling using a different framework location, or different --prefix? Yes, I guess that should work. Anyway, different volumes seem like a very good solution to me, because I can use the stock CRAN installers. I'll try it in a second. Gabor > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
