See Simon's reply. In addition, if you tell the student to start up the GUI and use the built-in functions found in the menubar, s(he) will automatically download binaries, so it really is quite simple.
There are binaries for most CRAN/Bioconductor packages (the few which are missing are typically missing on windows as well). Kasper On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:15 AM, Ben Bolker wrote: > > does anyone have a source for a binary > (OS X.4) of the survival package? (This is > again for the student who I'm trying to convince > that open-source is simple and easy ...) > Otherwise I will try to hack through installing > the stuff needed to compile from source, > but I'm so ignorant of the Mac platform that > these things tend to be harder than they > should be. > > thanks to all for their help with the > last problem -- simply installing the tcltk > libraries bundled with R seemed to do the > trick. > > thanks, > Ben Bolker > > _______________________________________________ > 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
