[R] Rcompression on MAC - where is it?

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:

> Dear Peter
>
> many thanks for your reply.
>
> I am new to R (and MAC) but I had no problem to get my MAC to run  
> gcc and gfortran (years of experience on linux).
>
> Although I have Parallels and Vmware Fusion installed on my MAC, I  
> am not running windows.
>
> I have downloaded rcompression.tar, untared it, /configure and make  
> install.  On R, I have issued "library(Rcompression)" and zip is now  
> available on R sessions.
>
>
>> Packages & Data -> Package Installer -> Local source package
>
> I could not find the option local source package on MAC.
>

It's only an option with that menu path if you are running the GUI.  
Otherwise you need to use install.packages( ... , type="source") with  
the other  proper arguments.

Again. Questions of this sort are supposed to go here:

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
-- 
David.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed
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> On Jul 13, 2011, at 4:30 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2011, at 03:04 , David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I need to run an r-file that works on Windows on MAC.
>>>
>>> Does that mean you are using a virtual box to run Windoze on Mac  
>>> hardware?
>>>
>>
>> More likely, he used to run it on a Windows machine, now has a Mac.
>>
>>
>>>> The first lines of the file are:
>>>>
>>>> library(R.matlab)
>>>> library(Rcompression)
>>>>
>>>> Somehow I cannot find where Rcompression is.  Am I missing  
>>>> something?
>>>
>>> Learn to search... _first_ hit on google searhc for rcompression is:
>>>
>>> http://www.omegahat.org/Rcompression/
>>
>>
>> Notice that it comes as a source package, so needs to be downloaded  
>> and compiled. Easy enough via the Packages & Data -> Package  
>> Installer -> Local source package, click Install, then browse for  
>> file (Simon? That's not proper Mac conventions, is it?). Works for  
>> me, but new users may need to install build tools, Xcode et al., as  
>> per
>>
>> http://r.research.att.com/tools/
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Peter Dalgaard
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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>

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT