difficulty updating libiconv

[Sterling Smith]

On Apr 23, 2013, at 10:56PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>> 
>> 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.
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> 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/.
> 
Have you tried port install R?  (There also appear to be R-app and R-framework ports...)
> 
>> 
>> The explicit command to move /usr/local aside could be:
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>> sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local-off
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>> And to move it back, if you insist on doing so:
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>> 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
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