I have a follow up question. How can I install gfortran-4.8.2 on the Mavericks?
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] <javascript:> > 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] <javascript:> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >
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