[R-SIG-Mac] R Package Installer listing of available binaries

[Ivan Alves]

Dear Simon,

Many thanks for clarifying the confusion.  Reading the MAC OS FAQ I  
understand that I can _in principle_ use the Tiger binaries with the  
leopard build. Is there a way to configure the default package type of  
the leopard build from mac.binary.leopard to mac.binary so that it  
looks in the universal folder?

Kind regards,

Ivan
On 6 Jan 2009, at 00:03, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> You are using the Leopard build of R - that one uses
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.8/
> instead (which has fewer package than the Tiger build since only  
> those supporting 64-bit are represented). See also R for Mac FAQ.
>
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/
> is for the CRAN (default) Tiger build.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 17:42 , Ivan Alves wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> For some reason, the binaries listed by R GUI's "Package
>> Installer" (using http://cran.us.r-project.org as mirror, as set up  
>> in
>> the default CRAN mirror in the Startup preference Panel) is not the
>> same as the listing of binaries available in http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.8/
>> . Notably the RGtk2 binary is not available in the listing provided  
>> by
>> the Package Installer, but
>> RGtk2_2.12.7.tgz 24-Oct-2008 15:01 6.7M
>> is. Any suggestions of what is going wrong and how I could fix this
>> (short of downloading the binary manually and installing it locally  
>> or
>> installing it from source)? Many thanks in advance.
>> Best regards,
>> Ivan
>> The sessioInfo() for my R session gives the following:
>>
>> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-04 r47472)
>> i386-apple-darwin9.5.0
>>
>> locale:
>> en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] gWidgets_0.0-32 rattle_2.4.0    plyr_0.1.3
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.8.1
>>
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