difficulty updating libiconv

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> When you wrote /opt/local, did you mean /usr/local? If so, please get rid of it. Having software installed in /usr/local will interfere with MacPorts.

I'm in between two authorities here. The people who maintain R expect that some of their tools will reside in usr/local/. I need R more than I need Macports, so I'm not going to trash usr/local/.


> 
> The explicit command to move /usr/local aside could be:
> 
> sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local-off
> 
> And to move it back, if you insist on doing so:
> 
> sudo mv /usr/local-off /usr/local
> 
> We instead recommend you install any software you need using MacPorts. tcl, tk, ImageMagick and sqlite3 are all available and well-maintained in MacPorts.

ImageMagick perhaps could be removed,  but the GUI's for R are fairly dependent on tcl/tk.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA