Marc Schwartz <[email protected]> writes: > On Sep 12, 2013, at 9:20 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, > > I have not used Homebrew. > > Having come to OSX 4+ years ago from Linux myself, I was comfortable > using online third party Linux repos for things that were not in the > default distribution. However, much like the early Fedora repos, > before things were centralized and standardized, I found that the Mac > repos (MacPorts and Fink) caused more trouble than they were > worth. This was primarily due to non-standard dependencies, that > installed all kinds of stuff that I really did not need or want and in > some cases, conflicted with components that were already present in > OSX. That was my common experience with MacPorts and I rapidly removed > everything that they installed and just went to the upstream sources > or binaries (when available) when I needed something. > > I can't say whether or not Homebrew has similar characteristics to > MacPorts and/or Fink, but I would say, be very careful and know > exactly what you are getting if you do.
As far as I understand homebrew, it ws designed with specifically having these in mind and I must say I did not encounter any problems in this regard yet. > > I used to build R from source on OSX, since I had done the same on > Linux for years. However, for the past year or two now, I have been > using Simon's CRAN binary releases and life has been much simplified > as a result. No question - the binary is much easier to handle, but one is paying with having to rely on provided versions of libraries / frameworks. Thanks, Rainer > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- 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
