Seth,
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:18 , Seth Falcon wrote:
Hi Christian,
Unless you are doing development with R I would second Simon's
suggestion to use the pre-packaged R binary.
Just to clarify -- I wasn't questioning building R from sources -- I
was questioning why anyone would use Fink or MacPorts R binary since
you lose the advantage of control over the build and yet you get a much
more limited binary than the one from CRAN and you can't use CRAN
package binaries, either.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Christian Kleiber
<Christian.Kleiber at unibas.ch> wrote:
I am familiar with building R packages but I have never built R
from source (this might change, however). Question: any strong
opinions re Fink vs MacPorts? Or other solutions? (I have been using
Fink on my laptop for some time without problems but then I never built R
from source.)
I have had better experiences with MacPorts vs Fink, although both
have a tendency to pull in large sets of dependencies for libraries
and tools that are already on your Mac.
Recently, I've been using Homebrew [1] as an alternative. Yes, it is
yet another package manager. One of its aims is to avoid duplicating
libs that are already on a modern Mac.
Thank, Seth, I really like the Homebrew approach -- the real problem
with MacPorts/Fink is that they mess up the system (if you use them) so
Homebrew takes that out of the equation. I'll test it for a bit and see
if we can even recommended that since it complements the binaries we
provide ...
Thanks,
Simon