[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.1.1 available in DarwinPorts

elijah wright elw at stderr.org
Fri Sep 2 20:25:00 CEST 2005



"just", or a couple days ago?  i built something from darwinports for our 
mac lab a couple days back that claimed to be 2.1.1....

good to hear that the aqua tcltk works.  that's very nice.

looking forward to the framework support.  that should be mega-cool.

--elijah


On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Kjell Konis wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:44:08 -0700
> From: Kjell Konis <konis at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: r-mac <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.1.1 available in DarwinPorts
> 
> I just added R 2.1.1 to DarwinPorts.  Presently this is only the
> command line version of R but it does support Aqua tcl/tk (a pleasant
> surprise, I tested it with Rcmdr and rgl) and X11.  DarwinPorts
> supports installing frameworks now and I'm planning on making a port
> for R.framework when 2.2 comes out in October.
>
> If you would like to try it out you will first need to install
> DarwinPorts.  Instructions are available here
>
> http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/getdp/
>
> but it really just boils down to (1) running the installer on this DMG
>
> http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.0.dmg
>
> (the rest of the commands should be run in the terminal)
>
> (2) adding DarwinPorts to your path:
>   csh, tcsh: setenv PATH /opt/local/bin:${PATH}
>   bash: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:${PATH}
>
> (3) updating to the latest version of port (the program that installs
> the DarwinPorts):
>   sudo port selfupdate
>
> (4) getting the latest version of the ports:
>   sudo port sync
>
> (5) and installing R
>   sudo port install R
>
> Installing R will take a long time because it has lots of
> dependencies (fortran compiler, latex, tcl/tk, etc.).
>
> Kjell
>
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