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@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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