[R-SIG-Mac] Where oh where is the idiot list for Mac people who are special?

[stefano iacus]

For all the rest, R-help list and lots of introductory documentation  
on R is available on the Internet and particularily under the  
Documentation/Contributed section on http://CRAN.R-project.org

But let me further add the following: to maximize the benefit (your  
benefit) of an answer to one of your questions, please try to be  
specific on the topic.

I still did not get right if you use a OS X Mac or a OS 9 Mac. This  
makes a huge difference, as the old one is currently not supported  
any more. The last version of R for Mac OS 8.6 -> 9.2.2 is R 1.7.1  
(http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos) which we discourage to use for  
several reasons.
Otherwise, R for OS X (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx) is just  
a standard Cocoa app with its own standard Apple installer package. R  
on OS X comes with a minimal GUI, but anyway everything in R should  
be typed on the Console like on other systems/platforms. Any book (or  
online reference) on R will help you to go on.

stefano

Il giorno 10/giu/06, alle ore 19:19, Phillip Price ha scritto:

>
>> You know, the list that understands some folks are near idiot savants
>> on stats and, on good days, drive an old Mac to the moon and back,
>> but can not get the twingles and trepidations of the big R on old or
>> new Macs.  Big R seems the ideal commercial for "this is what your
>> brain on drugs produces."  On good days.
>>
>>
>> So, with that, I end with a simple plea,
>>
>> Show me some simple, preferably linear, documentation.
>
> D,
> 	For what it's worth, I, too, feel like I'm missing out on possibly
> useful Mac-specific functionality due to simply not knowing what
> features are available, what their benefits are, etc.  I also don't
> even try to follow detailed discussion of compiler options, tcl/tk
> library mismatches, and so on.  I have never built R from source.  In
> fact, I'm not even sure what you mean by "Big R", so forgive me if
> this response is completely irrelevant.
>
> 	That said, I have had no problem installing and running R --- I
> don't know if it's "Big R," but it's R --- by following the
> directions in the Mac OS X FAQ (go to http://www.r-project.org, click
> on FAQs in the menu at the left side of the page, and then choose
> "The R MacOS X FAQ").   The main section headings are:
>
> Introduction
> Building R from sources
> Command line version of R
> R.app
> How to install packages
> R and external applications
> Quartz device
> TclTk issues
> Internationalization of the R.app
> Additional resources
> Acknowledgments
> Sparse questions
> Perhaps you could help improve the R for Mac OS X documentation by
> letting us know which of the following are true:
>
> (1) You didn't know about this FAQ. (If this is the case, please tell
> us how its existence should be announced).
>
> (2) One or more sections are inadequate. (If this is the case, please
> tell us which sections need work, and what work is needed).
>
> (3) One or more sections are missing. (Please tell us what additional
> sections you would like to see).
>
>
>
> Thanks and good luck, D.
>
> --Phil Price
>
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