[R] Installing R 1.9.0 on OSX

[Brian Beckage]

I've downloaded and installed R 1.9.0 under OS X 10.3.3.  I then 
removed my previous R 1.8.0 installation by following the 
instructions in the readme file, e.g.,

1. drag the "StartR" icon into the Trash;

2) go inside your Home directory and search for the Library folder. 
Inside the Library folder in your Home directory 	       you'll 
find a RAqua directory: drag the RAqua folder into the Trash:

3) empty the Trash.

and I removed the directory /usr/local/lib/R and the file 
/usr/local/bin/R as instructed.

R 1.9.0 will start up from the applications window.  Since I usually 
run R using Xemacs and X11, I used the following commands (under zsh) 
to set up a symbolic link:

>  sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R /usr/local/bin/R

which gives me an error that the file /usr/local/bin/R does not 
exist, which of course, it doesn't as I deleted it as described 
above.  R will start up fine if I use
>  /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R

In addition, usr/local/bin does exist and is on the search path.

>  echo $PATH
>/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/brianbeckage:/usr/X11R6/bin:.:/Users/brianbeckage/bin:/usr/local/bin


How do I correctly set up the symbolic link?

Thanks for you help,
Brian


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