Rainer, I've always used the official CRAN release and been quite happy. It might depend on what other software you need to integrate with, but I've used a bunch of front ends and run R (CRAN) from the command line with no problems.
Regards, Tom On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Jari Oksanen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 19/06/2013, at 12:40 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I am completely new to OS X (linux user up to now)- so please excuse my > > ignorance. > > > > What is the best way to install R on OS X? Should I use something like > > Macports [1]? Or should I install from the official release from the > > cran site? > > > > What are the drawbacks of each? > > The drawback of macports is that it brings you trouble and sorrow. > > I don't know any drawbacks of using official CRAN releases. > > Cheers, Jari Oksanen > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
