Re: st: re: invoking R from Stata

[Michael Hanson <mshanson@mac.com>]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Kit Baum wrote:

> No doubt by changing the Rterm_options you can alter the way in  
> which it produces output.  Note that under *nix there is no  
> separate executable Rterm; it is just the binary executable r. When  
> you install R on Mac OS X, you get R.app, which is the executable  
> that provides the GUI, but under the hood it calls /usr/bin/r.


Thanks, Kit:  that is useful information that I was not aware of.   
Indeed, the help for R.app version 2.7.2 [1] suggests the following:

"To use R you probably need to add a symbolic link on your system as  
the R binary is located inside the framework. Suppose you have the / 
usr/local/bin directory on your system (if you do not have one, you  
can use /usr/bin instead) you should just type in your Terminal (a  
root password is required)

     sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/R /usr/ 
local/bin/R
Assuming that you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH environment  
variable, you will be able to launch R from any location on your  
system just by typing R."



-- Mike

[1] I have not updated to version 2.8.0 due to some time series  
routines that do not yet execute properly with version 2.8.0.
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