On 21/05/2014 23:42, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
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From: "Vincent Goulet" <[email protected]>
To: "Grant Rettke" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 3:32:53 PM
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Best installation approach of R on Mavericks for
Emacs/Homebrew users?
Ok, I'm biased here, but for me (and my students!) the simple
procedure is:
1. Install the R binary from CRAN;
I agree. I believe (correct me if I am wrong) that if you install R in any
other way, including Homebrew, you cannot install and use binary CRAN and
Bioconductor packages. Which means you have to have a development environment
on your machine and you have to wait for every package to build from source.
It is slightly wrong: you can build R from the sources emulating how it
is done for CRAN (and r.research.att.com): then type =
"mac.binary.mavericks" will work. But very few people would have a need
of that.
However, the coverage for the Mavericks binary packages on CRAN is still
not as good as for Snow Leopard, and if you primarily use binary
packages we recommend the Snow Leopard CRAN binary. The benefits of the
Mavericks build come when installing packages from sources.
Dan
2. Install my Emacs distribution for OS X that comes bundled with
ESS: http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/mac
3. Enjoy.
Envoyé de mon iPad
Le 2014-05-21 à 15:37, Grant Rettke <[email protected]> a
écrit :
Hi,
I'm working on setting up a new to me OSX machine with R. My
preference is
via Homebrew, with which I'll
be using Emacs and ESS. Looking out for trouble, I tried to do a
little
legwork first of all to see what is the status quo for installing R
on
Mavericks. There are more than a few options and I am wanting to
get your
feedback on what worked for you, and if you happened to follow any
of these
directions. Here is what I found:
https://onote2.github.io/2013/12/04/install-r-on-mac-os-x-109-mavericks/
The simplest. Looks great.
http://davidsimpson.me/2013/02/26/installing-r-on-os-x/
Also simple.
http://zmjones.com/mac-setup/#R
Also quite simple.
http://www.moncefbelyamani.com/how-to-install-xcode-homebrew-git-rvm-ruby-on-mac/#step-1
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/issues/427
Sometimes things go wrong?
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
If all else fails, or perhaps are any of you Emacs users using this
instead
of Homebrew?
It looks pretty straightforward at this point; just wanted to talk
to some
other folks and see what worked for them.
Kind regards,
Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi
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