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

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Ivan Alves wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> You can simply set options(pkgType="mac.binary"). You can do that in  
> your startup files if you desire. However, it could be (I'd have to  
> check the sources) that the GUI still overrides this setting so you  
> may want to use install.packages yourself. Again, I do NOT recommend  
> this, since it defeats the purpose of the Leopard build (you won't  
> have 64-bit binaries!), but you're free to do what you please ;).
>
> Cheers,
> Simon

I am wondering if Ivan has yet tried building the missing packages  
from sources using the R-GUI Package Installer. I was holding off on  
using the 64-bit GUI until I discovered how wonderfully simple you had  
designed that process. Sometimes the dependencies are not properly  
listed in the packages, but the error messages are clear (and  
highlighted in red) and installing the missing packages often solves  
the problems. I am assuming the the reasons for some of the binaries  
not automatically being created is the missing dependency information,  
since they usually compile without error when that is corrected.

A thousand thanks, Simon.

-- 
David Winsemius
>
>
>
>>
>> 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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