R help - Oct 2003 - Macintosh binaries; was: Rcmdr and Macintosh

I am a Windows user and trying to make life easier for my Mac-using students.
After investigating the Mac situation more, it appears that the key to easy use
is having precompiled binaries. However the packages I am interested in (Rcmdr
and its required package, car) do not have one. I do not have easy access to a
Mac, so I have a plea to Macintosh users: could someone please create them if it
is not too difficult? I am planning to use R 1.7.1. Please forgive me if my
request is inappropriate.

Aniko

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Did you try install.packages()?

I know this is not exactly what you're looking for, but with the 
sometimes-called 'Darwin' version of R 1.7.1 for Mac OS X, installed 
from source code, not a precompiled binary, and using X Windows,
   install.packages('Rcmdr')
   install.packages('car')
were successful.
>  version
          _                     
platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.6
arch     powerpc               
os       darwin6.6             
system   powerpc, darwin6.6    
status                         
major    1                     
minor    7.1                   
year     2003                  
month    06                    
day      16                    
language R                     

I'm not up to date on whether install.packages() will work from a 
precompiled binary for OS X.

I haven't tried it, but I do not expect install.packages() to work if 
the Mac OS is 9.x or before, as these are not unix-based. (and 
support for R pre-OS X is waning if not completely gone)

-Don

At 10:42 AM -0600 10/1/03, Aniko Szabo wrote:
>I am a Windows user and trying to make life easier for my Mac-using 
>students. After investigating the Mac situation more, it appears 
>that the key to easy use is having precompiled binaries. However the 
>packages I am interested in (Rcmdr and its required package, car) do 
>not have one. I do not have easy access to a Mac, so I have a plea 
>to Macintosh users: could someone please create them if it is not 
>too difficult? I am planning to use R 1.7.1. Please forgive me if my 
>request is inappropriate.
>
>Aniko
>
>This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged infor...{{dropped}}
>
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA