[R-SIG-Mac] Building R 10.3.9

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:36 , stephen sefick wrote:

> I am not concerned about the mac goodies.  I am comfortable with the  
> command line and X11 version.  I want to know will R act like R  
> (getting packages without having to build them from source) if I  
> build them from source.  Simon, I know you probably answered this,  
> but I am a little dense.  Are building packages from sources "hard"  
> or just an option in the install.packages command.

It's just an option - use type='source' in install.packages. It's a  
bit slower that just installing binaries, but most packages should  
build without problems. There are few packages that are not very  
portable, feel free to ask if you encounter those.

Cheers,
Simon


>  I will be faced with this if
> I switch over to Linux  or BSD.  R and I have become co-dependent- I
> don't use excel for anything because I can do it easier in R, and this
> is why I am going through all of this trouble.
> Thanks
>
>
> 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
>
>