On Sep 16, 2008, at 18:22 , stephen sefick wrote:
I have an old ibook that is not ready to go out to pasture
256 RAM
933 processor
Can I build R 2.7.2 and up on this computer so that it will work with
install.packages()
For several reasons, no. First (and main) reason is that we simply
don't build 10.3 binaries anymore (for quite a while), so you have to
install packages from sources at any rate. Second reason is since R
2.7.0 we have a completely new Quartz which is built into R which
requires 10.4 or higher. You can still build R without Quartz support,
but you'll lose all the Mac goodies (i.e. you'll have to resort to X11).
Alternatively you can stick to R 2.6 which can be built for 10.3 with
all bells and whistles. Unfortunately I don't have any 10.3 machines
anymore (it's painful enough to maintain 10.4 for the time being ;)),
so I cannot provide you with a binary :/
Cheers,
Simon
or will I have to also build the packages from source
would it be better to set up a dual boot linux on this machine and
what would be the suggestions? I have been toying around with this
idea for a while and even installed SUSE but it ate up all of my RAM
and was swapping all of the time. I am happy with my old OS and the
preformance of the computer for things like word processing and
creating graphs with R (no super computation expensive stuff). I have
access to other computers for major processing intensive thing. I
just want a "if I want coffee with my work" computer.
thanks much
--
Stephen Sefick
Research Scientist
Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.
-K. Mullis
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