[R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages with type=source instead of the default binary?

2013-09-09 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I am using Snow Leopard and I can compile packages (I have all tools installed) but I am asking myself: Is there an advantage to using type=source instead of the binary install of the packages? For certain packages it makes sense to have fine grained control to link to certain versions of C

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages with type=source instead of the default binary?

2013-09-09 Thread Rainer M Krug
Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: On 09/09/2013 10:56, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I am using Snow Leopard and I can compile packages (I have all tools installed) but I am asking myself: Is there an advantage to using type=source instead of the binary install of the packages?

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages with type=source instead of the default binary?

2013-09-09 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
The advantages are very minor (although I do source compilation myself). To Prof Ripley's list I will add that I personally like to know I can compile from source for packages that I depend on in package development, so I can trace down bugs and run R CMD check - but this is a very, very minor