Am Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2012 10:38:18 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: > But as you said, most KDE parts can probably be skipped; and you could also > get rid of gcc and build tools, if you consider most people won't need > to build packages from source.
we'd need to investigate how the R port handles this. i assumed that the mac versions of R install binary packages, but the port seems to fetch sources instead (but i really didn't look to deep into this yet). if that is really the case, perhaps RKWard could change that by setting an appropriate option, so we can safely get rid of the build environment. > Another option would be to ask people to install the R bundle first, I'm not > sure how this works on Mac, but that would avoid duplicating work and space. R is not the problem, space-wise (except for the possible issue mentioned above). also, we'd need to create another portfile that looks for that third party files (not sure whether this would have a chance to become an official MacPort), and i suspect this might cause more trouble than it will solve, e.g., changes to the R installation can break RKWard. but sure, if you installed R previous to the bundle, you'll end up with two installations. > I don't own a Mac, but I occasionally grab one of my friend's to test a > few things. So I can't really help with the bundle, sorry, but I'll be > able to check for bugs and report them. great! > I was mainly asking to get an idea of the progress RKWard can make on > OSX. I'd live to be able to use RKWard for text mining package I'm > writing, but for now I really need it to be cross-platform. When it > works fine on OS X and Windows, I'll probably port my package from Rcmdr > to RKWard. Let's dream... ;-) apart from the file size and the not yet solved issues regarding the graphics devices[*], the mac version seems to work fine already. overall, my impression so far is that it even runs smoother than the windows version already, likely due to the fact that the BSD base of OSX has much more similarities to GNU/linux than NT based systems. of course, there are surely some more hidden bugs waiting to be discovered, so more testing is needed. viele grüße :: m.eik [*] = don't worry, they do work, they just don't offer the special features yet that RKWard usually comes with, so they're more like ordinary R devices at the moment -- dipl. psych. meik michalke abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie heinrich-heine-universit"at d"usseldorf
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