Also, instructions here <http://r.research.att.com/libs/> complement the manual (if you are---as I was---unsure what to do with the file you get from the link in the instructions <http://r.research.att.com/libs/gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2>).
On 2014-05-31, 11:10 AM, "Brian Ripley" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 31 May 2014, at 16:00, Davood Tofighi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have a follow up question. How can I install gfortran-4.8.2 on the >>Mavericks? > >See the manual: link below. > >> >>> On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:04:27 AM UTC-4, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> I've noticed some confusion about which CRAN installer package to use, >>> and even reluctance to update to 3.1.0. So some pointers for >>>Mavericks >>> users >>> >>> 1) AFAIK no users are going to be worse off using the Snow Leopard >>>build >>> of 3.1.0 rather than the only (Snow Leopard) build of 3.0.x. >>> >>> 2) The Mavericks build has support for C++11-using packages (there are >>> currently less than a handful) and some performance improvements from >>> its later compilers (and in rare cases these are large). >>> >>> 3) If you rely on binary packages with are not available for the >>> Mavericks build, install the Snow Leopard one. Currently that >>>includes >>> CRAN packages rgdal and rjags and all the BioC packages. >>> >>> 4) If you install packages from source, you will be most likely better >>> off with the Mavericks build. >>> >>> 5) The two builds need different Fortran compilers installed: you can >>> have both compilers at once. The details are at >>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X . >>>As >>> far as I know a Fortran compiler is only needed if you install >>>packages >>> from sources. >>> >>> Some of the Mavericks binary packages are missing for good reason. >>>The >>> C++ binary interface for the Xcode 5.x compilers in Mavericks is >>> completely different, so external software has to be compiled with >>>those >>> compilers. This affects CRAN packages >>> >>> RQuantlib RProtoBuf RVowalWabbit rgdal rjags rzmq >>> >>> Most of these can be gotten to work (see the results labelled >>> r-devel-osx-x86_64-clang at >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html) if compiling >>> from sources. There are packages with badly-written C++ which do not >>> compile under Mavericks, but as we have been chasing the CRAN >>> maintainers for a few months there are very few left (the main example >>> is BioC's package mzR). >>> >>> We had expected that by this time Mavericks users would be in a >>> majority, but it seems the proportion is in the 40s (%). Thus for R >>> 3.1.0 most of the effort has gone into the Snow Leopard build: expect >>> that to change by R 3.2.0 in a year's time. >>> >>> -- >>> Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] >>> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >>> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
