[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.1.1 for optimized for G5+Tiger

[Thomas Adams]

Simon,

Is there any advantage for G4 Mac R users to use this release, or  
should it be avoided?

Regards,
Tom


On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Since several users asked for it, I have compiled R 2.1.1
> aggressively optimized for G5 and Tiger. It comes bundled with the
> latest R.app (build 1608) and gfortran compiler (optional). You can
> download it from
> http://wiki.urbanek.info/files/R-2.1.1-G5.dmg
>
> Note that you should install Xcode 2.1 and the supplied gfortran
> compiler (it's optional in the above package, select "custom
> install") in order to be able to compile packages from sources. Since
> there is no optimized G5 packages on CRAN, it's likely that you want
> to compile them from sources.
>
> This is not an official release. We plan to have a Tiger release at
> some point, but we want to offer it with package bundles and we're
> working on that.
>
> Any feedback on this build is highly welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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