RKWard on Mac
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Status
To date we are not aware of successful attempts to install RKWard on Mac OS X. Unfortunately, none of the main contributors has a Mac available, so we cannot figure out a complete step-by-step guide without your help. If you would like to give this a try, please do! You are likely to run into a problem, here or there, but we are very much willing to talk you through those, and we are confident that RKWard on Mac is just a few steps away.
Please take the outline below as a rough guide of the required steps. If one of the steps is unclear, or simply does not work, let us know, and we will find a solution.
Pre-Requirements
- You need an existing installation of R (2.7.0 or higher). http://www.r-project.org/ has binaries for MacOS, and you will likely use the latest available binary installer.
- For KDE4, follow this procedure (taken from http://mac.kde.org):
- Install Fink: http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php
- Open a Terminal
- Enable the "unstable" distribution:
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fink configure
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- Update Fink:
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fink selfupdate # This will take a while to complete
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- Finally, install kdelibs and some needed packages. Currently it is important to use the X11 versions, RKWard will not work with the native versions, yet:
fink install kdebase4-x11 # This will take a long time to complete fink install svn # if you do not have svn, already
Notes:
- Fink also provides an R package, but this seems to be very old, thus it is recommended to install the official binary from http://www.r-project.org, as detailed above. After installation, you should have a console version of R at /usr/bin/R .
Building RKWard
Next fetch the latest SVN sources:
svn co http://rkward.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rkward/trunk rkward_trunk
The remainder of the process should work as detailed at Building RKWard From Source. These commands will hopefully do the trick:
cd rkward_trunk/rkward; # the directory with the svn checkout mkdir build; cd build . /sw/sbin/kde4-buildenv.sh # this sets some environment variables needed for building; we assume your fink base is "/sw". cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` make sudo make install
This should be all!
Running RKWard
For some reason fink places the KDE binaries in a rather hidden place, which is not in the path by default. If you have done everything as described above, rkward will be at
/sw/opt/kde4/x11/bin/rkward
Troubleshooting
Again: Some detail or other of the above instructions is probably just wrong. If / when you get an error, please don't give up. Send us a mail, and we will talk you through.
BTW: If you figured out the remaining details all by yourself: Great! But please drop us a note as well, so we can provide more accurate instructions in the future.