[R] Installing different R releases on Mac OS X

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Emanuele Mazzola
> <mathematician4 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>> I need to have two different versions of R on Mac OS X Leopard and  
>> Snow Leopard, namely R 2.12 and 2.8, because I have some packages  
>> that don't work properly with one or the other version. How can  
>> install them both without having the more recent overwrite on the  
>> older one? It seems Mac OS X lets me have only one release.

You may need to build the 2.8 version from sources. I don't think the  
binaries are supplied for ancient versions.

>> Thank you very much in advance for your help!Emanuele
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg03476.html

I guess we will be having a citation duel. My cite is newer and I  
would argue more authoritative, since it was written by Simon Urbanek.

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg05197.html


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> Steve Lianoglou
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT