Many thanks as always for your rapid response and suggestion.
I modified the call to install.packages by adding an INSTALL_opts argument:
This did the trick in terms of getting the
rj.gd package installed-- THANKS!
Next, I set up an R environment pointed to the conda environment where I installed rj. This required manual tweaking of the R_LIBS_USER variable (the "detect default" pointed to the other, non-conda R installation, probably because conda doesn't use the standard path convention.). Then I set up a run config and tried to launch. I got this error:
Launching the R Console was cancelled, because it seems starting the R engine failed.
R environment name= conda-r36
R package 'rj' path= ~/opt/miniconda3/envs/r36/lib/R/library/rj
Process Error Log:
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib
Reason: Incompatible library version: vecLib requires version 1.0.0 or later, but libBLAS.dylib provides version 0.0.0
So... I don't know. I have libopenblasp-r0.3.7.dylib installed in my conda environment, and there's also libblas-3.8.0-15_openblas in ~/opt/miniconca/pkgs.. but eclipse/statet seems to be using the version installed by xtools, and I don't know how to redirect (or whether this version would be compatible; doesn't really look like it.)
<sigh>
Thanks again.
Mike