[R-SIG-Mac]R on OSX

[Jan de Leeuw]

go to /sw/etc/fink.conf and change the Trees: line to

Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main 
unstable/crypto local/bootstrap

then say "fink install r-base"

--- Jan

On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 08:32 AM, Jean-Pierre Gattuso wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I am a new comer to unix and am trying to install R on MacOSX. I have 
> tried both "fink install r-base" and "fink install r-commended" but it 
> does not work:
>
> [gattuso:~] gattuso% fink install r-base
>
> sudo /sw/bin/fink install r-base
>
> Reading package info...
>
> Information about 251 packages read.
>
> Failed: no package found for specification 'r-base'!
>
>
>
> Fink seems to work OK because I have successfully downloaded gmt 
> (although I am  not able to run it yet...).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> jp
>
>
> At 12:01 +0100 23/12/01, r-sig-mac-request@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
>
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:14:23 -0800
> Cc: statcompute@gamma.stat.ucla.edu
> To: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch
> From: Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac]another source of R
>
> You can also install the Darwin/X11 version of R-1.4.0 (base and
> recommended) by using fink (see fink.sourceforge.net). This
> version (maintained by Jeffrey Whitaker, jsw@cdc.noaa.gov)
> uses f2c for the FORTRAN parts.
>
> Fink is a package manager. If you have installed fink (and the
> Apple Development Tools) then all you have to say once is
>
> fink install r-base
>
> fink install r-commended
>
>
> and every once in a while
>
> fink selfupdate
> fink update-all
>
> It also makes sense, once you are at it, to install dlcompat, atlas,
> g77, and xdarwin from fink.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Check out the Biogeosciences sessions at the next EGS meeting: 
> http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/egsga/nice02/programme/BGS.program.htm
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
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