[R-SIG-Mac] Best installation approach of R on Mavericks for Emacs/Homebrew users?

[peter dalgaard]

On 22 May 2014, at 00:32 , Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet at me.com> wrote:

> Ok, I'm biased here, but for me (and my students!) the simple procedure is:
> 
> 1. Install the R binary from CRAN;
> 
> 2. Install my Emacs distribution for OS X that comes bundled with ESS: http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/mac

2a. (variant) Install Aquamacs, which also comes with ESS and AUCTeX. 

> 
> 3. Enjoy.
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPad
> 
>> Le 2014-05-21 à 15:37, Grant Rettke <gcr at wisdomandwonder.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm working on setting up a new to me OSX machine with R. My preference is
>> via Homebrew, with which I'll
>> be using Emacs and ESS. Looking out for trouble, I tried to do a little
>> legwork first of all to see what is the status quo for installing R on
>> Mavericks. There are more than a few options and I am wanting to get your
>> feedback on what worked for you, and if you happened to follow any of these
>> directions. Here is what I found:
>> 
>> https://onote2.github.io/2013/12/04/install-r-on-mac-os-x-109-mavericks/
>> 
>> The simplest. Looks great.
>> 
>> http://davidsimpson.me/2013/02/26/installing-r-on-os-x/
>> 
>> Also simple.
>> 
>> http://zmjones.com/mac-setup/#R
>> 
>> Also quite simple.
>> 
>> http://www.moncefbelyamani.com/how-to-install-xcode-homebrew-git-rvm-ruby-on-mac/#step-1
>> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/issues/427
>> 
>> Sometimes things go wrong?
>> 
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
>> 
>> If all else fails, or perhaps are any of you Emacs users using this instead
>> of Homebrew?
>> 
>> It looks pretty straightforward at this point; just wanted to talk to some
>> other folks and see what worked for them.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi
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