On Sep 17, 2008, at 0:45 , Jari Oksanen wrote:
On 17 Sep 2008, at 1:22, 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()
My old iBook G4 with MacOS 10.3.9 just broke down in spring, but I
was able to build R (then 2.6.something) from sources following the
standard instructions, like get the latest XCode (which is not very
late for that system). However, you cannot build RGui (although they
claimed back then you could),
You could for 2.6 (and I did respond to you at that time how to go
about it... ;)).
but you must use R from the Terminal.app or Emacs. I also had to use
X11 graphics device, because quartz was made unusable (that was
deliberate like I read in NEWS which told that quartz window will
always open in the middle of my tiny screen, will be on top and
cannot be moved to show the terminal where I write).
Not true, use CarbonEL package (see those ESS threads ...).
Cheers,
Simon
I assume that quartz has changed since then like it has in the
official Mac release, but that probably makes things even more
difficult if you have OS 10.3.9. However, at least R 2.6.something
can be made to work in OS 10.3.9. R 2.6.something is quite OK,
except that you cannot ask help in R-help but they will come
shouting to you to install the latest version.
I had glorious 384M RAM (which costed a lot), and that was quite
usable in R, and also worked with double booting Ubuntu. Memory is
cheaper what it was when you got your iBook, in particular because
Apple doesn't sell memory to that old machines, and you must buy
cheaper chips (like Kingston).
cheers, jari oksanen
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