I've been using R on OS X probably ever since there was an R on OS X, and like you I use it from the command line. In the early days I installed R from sources, but quite a few years ago I switched to using the framework version. I can't think of any disadvantage I've encountered.
If I were to not use the framework version, I think I would prefer to install directly from sources, not use a package management system. There might be more initial work installing various prerequisites (things like tcl/tk, png, maybe readline, who knows what all) but it would probably be better in the long run. Some packages, such as a number of spatial packages, require installing other libraries such as rgdal, proj, and others. Currently, these are also available as frameworks, and installing those packages in a framework R is now well-supported. It might be considerably more difficult to install such packages in a non-framework R. I don't know how much would be involved, so I just suggest it as an aspect to consider. -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 9/12/13 7:20 AM, "Rainer M Krug" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi > >I am using R at the moment installed from the official installation as a >framework, buit I also installed it from homebrew. As I am not using the >Mac GUI (I am using mainly emacs, a little bit RStudio), so from there >there was no difference. > >So which approach has which advantages? I can think of advantages when >using homebrew (updates and upgrades of R) and also the framework >approach (Ease of maintenance). > >I personaly lean towards the homebrew installation (linux background), >but are there any disadvantages to using the official framework >installation? > >Any comments? > >Cheers, > >Rainer > >-- >Rainer M. Krug > >email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
