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  #ls -la /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/
 
  #ls -la /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/
 
 
  drwxrwxr-x  9 root  admin  306 Jul 27 16:44 .
 
  drwxrwxr-x  9 root  admin  306 Jul 27 16:44 .
 
  drwxrwxr-x  8 root  admin  272 Jul 27 16:44 ..
 
  drwxrwxr-x  8 root  admin  272 Jul 27 16:44 ..
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  sudo -s # [enter password]  
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  sudo -s  
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# [enter password]  
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rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R
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rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
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cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
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ln -s Versions/2.2/R R
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ln -s Versions/2.2/Resources Resources
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To point to the current release again;
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  rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R
 
  rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R
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rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
 
  cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
 
  cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
 
  ln -s Versions/Current/R R
 
  ln -s Versions/Current/R R
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ln -s Versions/Current/Resources Resources
 
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Revision as of 21:58, 27 July 2006


R programming language

R is a powerful statistical programming language, an implementation of the S programming language, with semantics derived from Scheme (see R programming language for details).

R on OS X

Install the R dmg format from a local CRAN mirror, e.g. Auckland statistics mirror.

Installation details

On OS X, R installs in the path;

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework
/Library/Receipts/ # (R-*.pkg receipts)

The directory structure is;

# ls -la /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
drwxrwxr-x   8 root  admin   272 Jul 27 16:44 .
drwxrwxr-x   6 root  admin   204 Aug 23  2005 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin  6148 Aug 23  2005 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    24 Jul 27 16:44 Headers -> Versions/Current/Headers
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    31 Jul 27 16:44 PrivateHeaders -> Versions/Current/PrivateHeaders
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    18 Jul 27 16:44 R -> Versions/Current/R
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    26 Jul 27 16:44 Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources
drwxrwxr-x   9 root  admin   306 Jul 27 16:44 Versions

The symbolic link Resources (R -> Versions/Current/R) points to the version release directory structure including the currently installed packages in the library subdirectory. You can identify all installed versions in the Versions subdirectory;

#ls -la /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/
drwxrwxr-x   9 root  admin   306 Jul 27 16:44 .
drwxrwxr-x   8 root  admin   272 Jul 27 16:44 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  admin  6148 Oct 17  2005 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     5 Aug 16  2005 2.1 -> 2.1.1
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     5 Aug 16  2005 2.1.0 -> 2.1.1
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin   136 Dec 14  2005 2.1.1
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  admin   136 Jul 27 16:44 2.2
drwxrwxr-x   6 root  admin   204 Jul 27 16:44 2.3
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin     3 Jul 27 16:44 Current -> 2.3

The symbolic link for R points (R -> Versions/Current/R) to the current release, this can be altered to run a previous version of R, e.g.

sudo -s 
  1. [enter password]
rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R
rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
ln -s Versions/2.2/R R
ln -s Versions/2.2/Resources Resources

To point to the current release again;

rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R
rm -f /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
ln -s Versions/Current/R R
ln -s Versions/Current/Resources Resources