Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/09/2013 17:15, MacQueen, Don wrote: >> 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. > > It is harder to have multiple versions of the framework in use at > once. And that is an issue now the R release rate is slower: > package developers probably want both the release version and a > current R-devel.
That is what I was thinking as well - in homebrew, I simply have to use ,---- | brew switch R <version> `---- to switch to another installed version. > >> 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. > > Almost nothing. Simon provides binaries for those at > http://r.research.att.com/libs/ and if you want later ones they > compile simply from the sources. in any case, whether R is a > framework or not does not affect installing packages from sources, as > you still need to tell the toolchain where to look for the headers and > libraries. That is good to know. > > On my office iMac have almost all of CRAN installed (more than Simon > provides as binaries) compiling from source. The exceptions are those > 10 or so which are too broken to install on OS X and those depending > on Qt, MySQL (I haven't bothered) or BRugs (i386 Windows/Linux only) Thanks a lot for all of your input. I will then, for the moment, stick to the framework (as it works), but keep the homebrew option in mind. Thanks, 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
