[Bioc-devel] running devel and release versions of R and bioc on mac os?

[Paul Shannon]

Thanks, Kasper.

I, too, run R from emacs using ESS, and my hope is to run (with or without ESS) the two versions in separate buffers, making for easy comparisons in a familiar environment.

Rather than building from source, I am inclined to get the latest build from

  http://r.research.att.com/#nightly

Any further suggestions?

Thanks!

 - Paul




On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> I do this routinely, but I access R from the terminal or from within
> Emacs, using ESS.  I also compile R myself.
> 
> It is possible to do this using the Rgui by using the Rswitch
> application, but that depends quite a bit on how you install R-devel
> (installer (is that possible?), compile or untar compiled code).
> However, using Rswitch you will only ever have a single R running.  If
> you want to run them side by side I think you need to modify stuff
> (which I do and which is not that hard).
> 
> This seems like a reasonable request so I wonder what other people do
> (although I predict most people will say compile from source).
> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Paul Shannon
> <pshannon at systemsbiology.org> wrote:
>> Are there any special techniques you can advise me of, for installing and running two concurrent R/bioc versions installed on Mac OS?
>> 
>> I wish to have the latest build of the devel version without sacrificing the current release as well.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>  - Paul
>> 
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