[R-SIG-Mac]for the forward looking

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu> writes:

    Jan> In ftp://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub/ you can find R-devel-OSX.tar.gz, which
    Jan> is the X11/Darwin version of R-devel (i.e. R-1.5.0).

Note that momentarily, there's not really much new in there; but
that should change soon

    Jan> It will be updated
    Jan> every once in a while, for people who want to experiment. It unpacks
    Jan> into an R-devel directory with its own bin and lib and man 
    Jan> subdirectories,
    Jan> so it will not override your current R installation. It is only the
    Jan> base distribution, but in R-1.5.0 many packages (MASS, sgeostat,
    Jan> geoR, Matrix) have moved into the base.
????
No!  What made you think so?
"Recommended" packages should be made available together with
binary distributions (since version R version 1.3!), however for
R-devel, this is not really a defined thing (recommended
packages are also relatively closely tested before a release of R).

Note that geoR or sgeostat are not recommended packages (at least not yet).

Of course, it might be fine if you make a binary "sumo package"
of R-devel available, but don't call this a ``base distribution''.

    Jan> The same considerations about dynamic librariies apply as for the
    Jan> regular R distribution. This is also build with g77, ATLAS, dlcompat.
    Jan> It has support for the gnome interface and the tcl/tk package. It also
    Jan> has libR.dylib (R as a shared library).
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