[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.9.1

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:41 , 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.
>

This has nothing to do with Xcode or  X11. The full packages contains  
Tcl/Tk and GNU Fortran. You'll need Tcl/Tk is you want to use tcltk  
(the one that OS X ships with doesn't work) and you'll need GNU  
Fortran if you want to compile packages from sources that contain  
Fortran code. So if you a) don't use tcltk and b) don' t compile  
packages from sources you're fine wit the mini version.

Cheers,
Simon