Greetings and Salutations Nigel, I've "augmented" the base R install via an unofficial, e.g. not sanctioned by CRAN, Rtools build. This can be found here:
https://github.com/coatless/r-macos-rtools Presently, the latest release only supports the R 3.4.* line: https://github.com/coatless/r-macos-rtools/releases/tag/v1.0.0 I'll likely update it this weekend to provide support for R 3.5.*. In particular, I'll bump the compiler from clang4 to clang6. Sincerely, JJB On 5/17/18, 11:45 AM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of Nigel Delaney" <r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of nigelfdela...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for the responses so far. David - indeed those instructions are up to date, but people are struggling with the issue and unable to fix that (and keep trying to install from source). Chuck - Thanks also for the suggestion, it's a good idea. I'm hoping we might be able to have a one step installation to keep things simple though. Cheers, Nigel On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Berry, Charles <ccbe...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > > >> On May 16, 2018, at 11:40 AM, Nigel Delaney <nigelfdela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Mac binaries on R are distributed as .pkg files available from CRAN >> for installation. Does anyone know if the source script (assuming a >> script is used) that generates this pkg file is available anywhere? >> The pkg seems to contain a few elements like a postflight/postinstall >> script that I could not find in any open source repository and are not >> part of the R binaries. >> >> We have a few users who are dealing with the fortran compiler issues >> on Mac, and were hoping to just modify the current .pkg to contain a >> few more packages, was hoping to avoid reinventing the wheel on the >> packaging scripts. >> > > > Why not just provide those users with the binaries for those packages? > > If there are more than a few users and/or more than a few packages that need this treatment, set up your own repository and put the binaries there. See: > > https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Setting-up-a-package-repository > > HTH, > > Chuck > > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
