[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.9.1

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:

>>> It's on CRAN now; perhaps the mirror you're using is a little slow
>>> to update?
>>>
>>
>> Probably quite a bit slow:
>>
>> 2009-06-26 13:29 R-2.9.1.dmg
>>
>> so the Mac binary was actually out very early this time ... you could
>> install it while having your afternoon tea on the R release date :).
>
> In the bottomless pit of my stupidity I always wanted to ask the  
> following, but I've always been too ashamed (or lazy) to ask. I  
> always download the full dmg, but I never install any of the  
> supplementary packages. Should I? only in case of a fresh  
> installation (I'm upgrading now)? I have Xcode and X11 installed  
> already anyway.


I would use the full installer at least once :-)

It provides a tcl/tk library that R can use, as well as a gfortran  
compiler that can target the different Mac architectures (ppc/x86 32  
and 64 bit). While XCode will compile source package that only rely on  
C source, you'd be marooned w/o the gfortran compiler if a package has  
fortran source. That said, if you're just installing the binary  
package, then you probably wouldn't even notice.

I used the mini installer this time to upgrade from 2.9.0 to 2.9.1.

--
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact