1) Installing R is my immediate goal for installing GCC and a
necessary condition to my running MacPorts. Sufficient condition for
my running MacPorts is running R, GnuCash, and an SSH friendly file
manager on my Mac desktop. There are a handful of other open source
software packages I'd like to run also.
2) I was running the binary distribution of R. Version 2.5.0 (the
latest) comes with an update installation of tcl/tk. As far as I can
tell, updating tcl/tk on the Mac keeps MacPorts from installing. I
intentionally updated tcl/tk when I first bought this machine a year
ago because I was using it to script menus for my R programs. I don't
do that sort of thing anymore, wanted to try MacPorts, and couldn't
figure out how to back out my tcl/tk update so I backed up all of my
personal files, reinstalled OSX, and tried to use MacPorts to install
GCC on bare metal. One thing I know for sure, there isn't any
software conflict keeping GCC from installing. ;-)
Chuck
On May 15, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Marc André Selig wrote:
On 5/15/07, Charles White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
3) My eventual goal is to install R for statistical computing.
I realize this may be besides the point, but there is a binary
distribution of R for OS X (including an Aqua interface) available
from http://cran.r-project.org. If your main goal is just to use R,
this might save you some hassle.
Regards,
Marc
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