peter dalgaard <[email protected]> writes: > On Sep 20, 2013, at 08:49 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> >> >> I am not so sure about that. It will do no harm running CRAN binary >> R. But it does mean that there are multiple versions of X11 things >> about and that will cause problems for other things (including >> possibly installing packages from source). > > > Or, put differently, we could be shipping libraries that are > incompatible with the system libraries (or 3rd party libraries for > that matter) if those are not kept up to date. > > Of course, keeping versions compatible is exactly what package > managers are for, on systems that have them. The way things work on > commercial platforms tend to lead each applicationq into rolling > everything you need into the application itself, which is - in the > bigger perspective - wasteful and somewhat risky (as defective > components only get replaced upon upgrade of the application). > > I know Simon distrusts them, but sometimes I do feel that we should > work more closely with the people doing managed distributions for OSX, > i.e. MacPorts, Homebrew, Fink. (Not sure how they'd cope with missing > OS updates, though.)
I completely agree here. I can only speak about homebrew, but one additional advantage is that to have multiple versions of R installed (and switching between them) is not a problem at all. If there would be a kind of an official support, I would definitely switch to the homwbrew version. 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
