[R-SIG-Mac] How to choose between the CRAN release of OSX R vs the Brew release?

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet at me.com
Wed Nov 12 17:44:37 CET 2014


I'm pretty sure that the advice you will mostly find here is to use the CRAN release. This is certainly the version that is supported.

v.

> Le 2014-11-12 à 09:35, Grant Rettke <gcr at wisdomandwonder.com> a écrit :
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> How do you choose between the CRAN release of OSX R versus the Brew release?
> 
> I am asking your personal preference, and now how to install one
> versus the other.
> 
> Because I already used Brew, I went with that and it has worked fine.
> 
> The only downside has been that R always crashes when I use ggplot2
> with the quartz device, so now I only use the x11 device which, from
> what I hear, is visually more crude.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> -- 
> Grant Rettke
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