[R-SIG-Mac] Choosing between Snow Leopard and Mavericks builds

[Gow, Ian]

Perfect. Sorry. I too me a while to see that, as I was looking in the
wrong place (for link below: `gsub("r-release", "r-devel",
"http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X")`)


On 2014-05-31, 11:18 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

>On 31/05/2014 16:14, Gow, Ian wrote:
>> Also, instructions here <http://r.research.att.com/libs/> complement the
>> manual (if you are---as I was---unsure what to do with the file you get
>> from the link in the instructions
>> <http://r.research.att.com/libs/gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2>).
>
>But the current manuals give more details ... footnote 44 says
>
>This is a tarball which needs to be unpacked in the Terminal by e.g.
>sudo tar -zxf gfortran-4.8.2-darwin13.tar.bz2 -C /.
>
>>
>> On 2014-05-31, 11:10 AM, "Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 31 May 2014, at 16:00, Davood Tofighi <dtofighi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a follow up question. How can I install gfortran-4.8.2 on the
>>>> Mavericks?
>>>
>>> See the manual: link below.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:04:27 AM UTC-4, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>>> I've noticed some confusion about which CRAN installer package to
>>>>>use,
>>>>> and even reluctance to update to 3.1.0.  So some pointers for
>>>>> Mavericks
>>>>> users
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) AFAIK no users are going to be worse off using the Snow Leopard
>>>>> build
>>>>> of 3.1.0 rather than the only (Snow Leopard) build of 3.0.x.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) The Mavericks build has support for C++11-using packages (there
>>>>>are
>>>>> currently less than a handful) and some performance improvements from
>>>>> its later compilers (and in rare cases these are large).
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) If you rely on binary packages with are not available for the
>>>>> Mavericks build, install the Snow Leopard one.  Currently that
>>>>> includes
>>>>> CRAN packages rgdal and rjags and all the BioC packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) If you install packages from source, you will be most likely
>>>>>better
>>>>> off with the Mavericks build.
>>>>>
>>>>> 5) The two builds need different Fortran compilers installed: you can
>>>>> have both compilers at once.  The details are at
>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X .
>>>>> As
>>>>> far as I know a Fortran compiler is only needed if you install
>>>>> packages
>>>>> from sources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of the Mavericks binary packages are missing for good reason.
>>>>> The
>>>>> C++ binary interface for the Xcode 5.x compilers in Mavericks is
>>>>> completely different, so external software has to be compiled with
>>>>> those
>>>>> compilers.  This affects CRAN packages
>>>>>
>>>>> RQuantlib RProtoBuf RVowalWabbit rgdal rjags rzmq
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of these can be gotten to work (see the results labelled
>>>>> r-devel-osx-x86_64-clang at
>>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html) if compiling
>>>>> from sources.  There are packages with badly-written C++ which do not
>>>>> compile under Mavericks, but as we have been chasing the CRAN
>>>>> maintainers for a few months there are very few left (the main
>>>>>example
>>>>> is BioC's package mzR).
>>>>>
>>>>> We had expected that by this time Mavericks users would be in a
>>>>> majority, but it seems the proportion is in the 40s (%).  Thus for R
>>>>> 3.1.0 most of the effort has gone into the Snow Leopard build: expect
>>>>> that to change by R 3.2.0 in a year's time.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  rip... at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>>>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>>>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>>>>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>>>>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
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>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595