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Macintosh porting of R
======================

In this directory you can find all the files needed to compile a
version of R for MacOS.  The original code for MacOS was written by
Ross Ihaka, Julian Harris and Wing Kwong (Tiki) Wan. More recently
Stefano M. Iacus has written new code, modified or simply updated most
of the older files to work with current versions of R sources and the
Waste Text Engine. 
From version 1.2.3 R is a Carbon application that will run natively
under MacOS X System.

Before building R
=================

There are only two files that must be uncompressed before
starting compiling R. These are

src/macintosh/res/R.rsrc.hqx    -  the R application resource file
src/macintosh/cwpro/R.mcp.hqx   -  the CodeWarrior Project file

and you need to expand them via any hqx decoding utility.

Some files need to be created on a Unix/Linux/MacOS X platform. Unpack
the sources on such a platform and run (you will probably need GNU
make)

    cd src/macintosh
    make
    make distribution

and then copy the file dist.zip to the Macintosh and unpack it at the
top level of the R sources.  It creates the library folder, and adds
files in doc/html and some header files in src/macintosh.


Building R
==========

The R binary can be compiled using Code Warrior Pro 6, called CW
subsequently, by simply opening the file "R.mcp" in the "cwpro" directory.
To build the R application you need version 2.x of the Waste Library
by Marco Piovanelli. This should be included in the CW6 distribution.
In case you don't have this, please download the full archive from the
official Waste library site,  http://www.merzwaren.com/waste.

You also need a fortran compiler or an F2C tool to compile the *.f
fortran files in src/appl directory.  The R.mcp project assumes that
you have converted the files with F2C and put the *.c sources in
/src/appl directory.  The CW6 distribution includes Mac F2C. You just
need to drag and drop fortran *.f files on the Mac F2C icon to convert
the files. 

Please note: take care to remove or rename the file "fp.h" in the
f2clib directory of Mac F2C distribution. This file conflicts
with the standard "fp.h" in the Apple Universal Libraries that
is needed in order to use IEEE 754 arithmetics.

If you use ABSoft Fortran Compiler you should use option -N15 to add
trailing underscores to fortran subroutines. Thanks to Andreas Papritz
and Jan Deleew.

Once you have built the R application, copy the "R" binary from
"src/macintosh/bin" in the folder where you put also the "library"
directory (with all packages built), the "afm", "demos" and "tests"
directories. The distribution folder should appear as

afm/        (dir)
demo/       (dir)
library/    (dir)
R       (file)
tests/      (dir)

You should also copy the ".Renviron" file in the same directory.


Before building R :
===================

1) Please copy the file `src/macintosh/config.mac.h' to
   `src/include/config.h' before you build the R application.

2) if you do not use F2C you need a Fortran compiler
   and also to change the R.mcp project.


Building packages
=================

To build compiled code for the standard packages, expand the
respective archives "src/<pkg>/src/<pkg>.mcp.hqx" that contain
a CW project.  Once you have built a package you should move the
resulting file to the "libs" directory in the "library/<pkg>"
folder.

Brian Ripley has written a "makefile" that you can run under MacOS X
that automates most of the things needed to build the R application,
configure it, build help and doc files etc.  If you are not able to
run this "makefile" you can take the help and examples files from the
Windows version by simply copying the whole directories {help, html,
R-ex} from the Windows distribution to the package directory here.

At present this applies to the data and R directories too.


Futher directions
=================

The GUI sources are adapted from the WasteDemo application from the Waste 
Text Engine distribution.
Thanks to Marco Piovanelli for providing these sources for free.

Note that the process of building R for the Macintosh is still not
satisfactory to us, and we are working on improvements.

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For comments and feedback, please contact either the
R Core Development Team (and Stefano M. Iacus) at

  R-core@R-project.org

or only

  Stefano M. Iacus <stefano.iacus@unimi.it>