[R-SIG-Mac] Building R 10.3.9

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 18:22 , stephen sefick wrote:

> I have an old ibook that is not ready to go out to pasture
> 256 RAM
> 933 processor
>
> Can I build R 2.7.2 and up on this computer so that it will work with
> install.packages()
>

For several reasons, no. First (and main) reason is that we simply  
don't build 10.3 binaries anymore (for quite a while), so you have to  
install packages from sources at any rate. Second reason is since R  
2.7.0 we have a completely new Quartz which is built into R which  
requires 10.4 or higher. You can still build R without Quartz support,  
but you'll lose all the Mac goodies (i.e. you'll have to resort to X11).
Alternatively you can stick to R 2.6 which can be built for 10.3 with  
all bells and whistles. Unfortunately I don't have any 10.3 machines  
anymore (it's painful enough to maintain 10.4 for the time being ;)),  
so I cannot provide you with a binary :/

Cheers,
Simon


> or will I have to also build the packages from source
> would it be better to set up a dual boot linux on this machine and
> what would be the suggestions?  I have been toying around with this
> idea for a while and even installed SUSE but it ate up all of my RAM
> and was swapping all of the time.  I am happy with my old OS and the
> preformance of the computer for things like word processing and
> creating graphs with R (no super computation expensive stuff).  I have
> access to other computers for major processing intensive thing.  I
> just want a "if I want coffee with my work" computer.
> thanks much
>
> -- 
> Stephen Sefick
> Research Scientist
> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
> so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>
> 	-K. Mullis
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