Perfect. Sorry. I too me a while to see that, as I was looking in the
wrong place (for link below: `gsub("r-release", "r-devel",
"http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X";)`)On 2014-05-31, 11:18 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 31/05/2014 16:14, Gow, Ian wrote: >> 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>). > >But the current manuals give more details ... footnote 44 says > >This is a tarball which needs to be unpacked in the Terminal by e.g. >sudo tar -zxf gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 -C /. > >> >> 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 >> > > >-- >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
