[R-SIG-Mac] Building R 10.3.9

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 0:45 , Jari Oksanen wrote:

>
> On 17 Sep 2008, at 1:22, 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()
>>
> My old iBook G4 with MacOS 10.3.9 just broke down in spring, but I  
> was able to build R (then 2.6.something) from sources following the  
> standard instructions, like get the latest XCode (which is not very  
> late for that system). However, you cannot build RGui (although they  
> claimed back then you could),

You could for 2.6 (and I did respond to you at that time how to go  
about it... ;)).


> but you must use R from the Terminal.app or Emacs. I also had to use  
> X11 graphics device, because quartz was made unusable (that was  
> deliberate like I read in NEWS which told that quartz window will  
> always open in the middle of my tiny screen, will be on top and  
> cannot be moved to show the terminal where I write).

Not true, use CarbonEL package (see those ESS threads ...).

Cheers,
Simon


> I assume that quartz has changed since then like it has in the  
> official Mac release, but that probably makes things even more  
> difficult if you have OS 10.3.9. However, at least R 2.6.something  
> can be made to work in OS 10.3.9. R 2.6.something is quite OK,  
> except that you cannot ask help in R-help but they will come  
> shouting to you to install the latest version.
>
> I had glorious 384M RAM (which costed a lot), and that was quite  
> usable in R, and also worked with double booting Ubuntu. Memory is  
> cheaper what it was when you got your iBook, in particular because  
> Apple doesn't sell memory to that old machines, and you must buy  
> cheaper chips (like Kingston).
>
> cheers, jari oksanen
>
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