Are you referring to this statement from the R FAQs for Mac OS X?
"In same cases you can still build packages without all the tools installed, but surely not for all the packages containing C/C++ or Fortran source code."
It is saying that if you do *not* have "all the tools" installed on your Mac, then you may not be able to install packages containing C++ code. But if you do take the steps necessary for building R from sources (i.e., install all the tools), then you will also be able to build such packages from sources. The FAQs also describe what those tools are, that you will have to install.
I install R from source code, and I have yet to encounter a package I couldn't install from source. Many of them have C and/or Fortran. Whether any are C++ I don't know.
Do you have any specific packages in mind?
-Don
At 1:45 PM +0000 1/7/05, Samuel Kemp wrote:
Hi,
I am considering whether or not to buy an apple mac. I have noticed on one of the R FAQs for Mac OS X that you cannot install packages from other OS's if C++ code is contained. My question is: Is it possible to build the package sources containing C++ code on the Mac and then install them?
Thanks in advance,
Sam.
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