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

[Rainer M Krug]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On 21/05/2014 23:42, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Vincent Goulet" <vincent.goulet at me.com>
>>> To: "Grant Rettke" <gcr at wisdomandwonder.com>
>>> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 3:32:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Best installation approach of R on Mavericks for Emacs/Homebrew users?
>>>
>>> Ok, I'm biased here, but for me (and my students!) the simple
>>> procedure is:
>>>
>>> 1. Install the R binary from CRAN;
>>
>> I agree. I believe (correct me if I am wrong) that if you install R
>> in any other way, including Homebrew, you cannot install and use
>> binary CRAN and Bioconductor packages. Which means you have to have
>> a development environment on your machine and you have to wait for
>> every package to build from source.
>
> It is slightly wrong: you can build R from the sources emulating how
> it is done for CRAN (and r.research.att.com): then type =
> "mac.binary.mavericks" will work.  But very few people would have a
> need of that.

And I don't think that homebrew is doing this actually.

>
> However, the coverage for the Mavericks binary packages on CRAN is
> still not as good as for Snow Leopard, and if you primarily use binary
> packages we recommend the Snow Leopard CRAN binary.  The benefits of
> the Mavericks build come when installing packages from sources.
>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Install my Emacs distribution for OS X that comes bundled with
>>> ESS: http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/mac
>>>
>>> 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
>>>> gcr at wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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>>>> stop
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