Building R 10.3.9
On Sep 16, 2008, at 18:22 , stephen sefick wrote:
I have an old ibook that is not ready to go out to pasture 256 RAM 933 processor Can I build R 2.7.2 and up on this computer so that it will work with install.packages()
For several reasons, no. First (and main) reason is that we simply don't build 10.3 binaries anymore (for quite a while), so you have to install packages from sources at any rate. Second reason is since R 2.7.0 we have a completely new Quartz which is built into R which requires 10.4 or higher. You can still build R without Quartz support, but you'll lose all the Mac goodies (i.e. you'll have to resort to X11). Alternatively you can stick to R 2.6 which can be built for 10.3 with all bells and whistles. Unfortunately I don't have any 10.3 machines anymore (it's painful enough to maintain 10.4 for the time being ;)), so I cannot provide you with a binary :/ Cheers, Simon
or will I have to also build the packages from source would it be better to set up a dual boot linux on this machine and what would be the suggestions? I have been toying around with this idea for a while and even installed SUSE but it ate up all of my RAM and was swapping all of the time. I am happy with my old OS and the preformance of the computer for things like word processing and creating graphs with R (no super computation expensive stuff). I have access to other computers for major processing intensive thing. I just want a "if I want coffee with my work" computer. thanks much -- Stephen Sefick Research Scientist Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis
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