I don't think it is necessary to put binary versions of the Darwin/X11 version on CRAN any more. The current sources compile without problems on both Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2, using either gcc/g77 2.95.2 or gcc/g77 3.1, or f2c. It seems to me that if you are using R from the command line, using X11, that you are sophisticated enough to install the tools below. And, if you want to install and upgrade R packages, you need these tools anyway. Here is what you need. I will assume you use Jaguar (10.2), support for 10.1 will vanish rapidly. Also, do use gcc 3.1, it gives better and faster code on Darwin (it's the default compiler anyway). 1. The Apple Developer Tools. Become an on-line member of the Apple Developer Connection (for free) and then get the latest version of the Developer Tools. http://www.apple.com/developer This gives you, in the Darwin layer, the gcc toolset, and in the Aqua layer it gives you the ProjectBuilder toolset (which you do not need for the Darwin/X11 version of R). 2. You have to install X11. A good introduction to this is http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php You can install xfree86 using fink (see below), you can also install it using the installer from http://www.mrcla.com/XonX/ Instead of using the XDarwin interface that comes with this distribution, you can (and probably should) use OroborusX, which provides and interface to the rootless X server and a very Aqua-like window manager. http://oroborosx.sourceforge.net/ 3. You need the 10.2 version of fink, for readline, dlcompat, g77, ncurses, libpcre, libz, libbz2, f2c if needed, tcltk, xfree86 if needed, atlas if needed, gnome if needed. Some of this stuff (ncurses, tcl, libz) now also sits in /usr/lib, but the R configure scripts will choose the fink version. See http://fink.sourceforge.net in particular http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jaguar.php All the CRAN packages compile as well (although you may need other pieces of fink such as MySQL or netcdf to get them going), with the exception of Matrix and subselect, but a fix for those is on its way. ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software 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://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software 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://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software 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://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software 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://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- ==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software 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://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) 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