On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Peter Wickham wrote:
> My Windows machine has gone "kaput" and I am trying to see how R
might
> work on my Mac. I am interested in using the contributed packages,
> especially "waveslim" and "wavethresh". Are all
packages available
> under either Windows, Mac, or Unix? I can't seem to tell from the
Yes, at least one of those! Not all are available under Windows and fewer
still under MacOS X. This is because
- the people who build the binary packages are (rightly) conservative and
only release packages that clearly pass all the tests.
- the MacOS X platform is a rather (very?) unusual Unix-alike.
Looking on CRAN, both have waveslim but only Windows (and Unix) have
wavethresh. The latter does not appear on the status page
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/1.8/Status
so I don't know why.
> documentation whether this is so (probably because I am not very
> computer literate!). Any thoughts?
Just look on CRAN to find out.
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