[R-SIG-Mac] Do Darwinports and R play nice on Tiger?

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:

> I would like to install gnucash on a Macbook running OS X 10.5.4.  It
> appears that I would need either Fink or Darwinports installed to
> install gnucash.  Because my past experiences with Fink have not been
> positive I am considering installing Darwinports.  However, I notice
> that they want me to override many system libraries with their
> versions of the libraries (http://gnucash.darwinports.com/install/).
> Am I likely to cause problems with R running on this system if I do
> so?


You will probably get differing opinions on the matter. It's probably  
not just a question about R, but also other things like TeX. You are  
not actually overriding system libraries, you are just putting the  
darwinports binaries earlier on the shell path. But I must be missing  
something, can't you just compile directly from the gnucash source?  
It shouldn't be much harder than installing darwinports, so unless  
you need a lot of other darwinports stuff, I see no reason to mess up  
with the system more than you have to.

Btw, I believe it's called MacPorts now.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College