R devel - Jan 2006 - Provide both shlib and standard versions of R?

Dear list,

To operate R from python via a Python package rpy, R has to be
compiled with --enable-R-shlib.  This is troublesome since none of the
binary distributions (except for windows?) is built with this option
so rpy users have to build R from source. This can be quite a
challenge, especially on platforms like macOSX.

Is it possible to provide both standard and shlib version of R by
default? This may not be too hard for R (link twice? I am not quite
sure.) but will benefit all applications that embed R.

Cheers,
Bo

On Jan 15, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Bo Peng wrote:
> To operate R from python via a Python package rpy, R has to be  
> compiled with --enable-R-shlib.  This is troublesome since none of  
> the binary distributions (except for windows?) is built with this  
> option

That is not true, almost all binaries come with R as shared library -  
it is in fact the default on Mac OS X and Windows. Most Linux  
distributions provide a shared library binary as well.
>  so rpy users have to build R from source. This can be quite a  
> challenge, especially on platforms like macOSX.
>
I guess you didn't even try it, because on OS X it *is* the default!

Simon