At http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R/builds you will find the latest builds of R-patched and R-devel for OS X 10.1. Both use the latest libraries from Fink, in particular both use a new version of Atlas, fine-tuned for 10.1. The main differences between R-patched and R-devel are 1. The differences in the versions of R, obviously. These are substantial. 2. R-devel is compiled with g77 and not with f2c. I assume this makes it somewhat faster. 3. R-devel is linked using the new two-level namespace feature of the OS X 10.1 linker. Again, this supposedly makes it faster. If you want to use R-patched as your default R, then copy the whole directory to your machine and run a "sudo make install" in the directory. This will put everything in /usr/local. I don't think it is a good idea to use R-devel as the default R. Just copy the directory and run the R script in bin if you want to live dangerously. Observe that R-devel does not include packages outside the base -- you have to install them, and you cannot use the install.packages() function. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================== No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ========================================================
R for Darwin/X11
1 message · Jan de Leeuw