I think all of the packages are available as source. You can look at ?install.packages to see how to use this from within R or look a R CMD install in a terminal window. hope this helps,
Stephen Sefick On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Don MacQueen <m...@llnl.gov> wrote: > At 5:04 PM -0400 4/30/09, Mito Takeshita wrote: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain >> Content-Disposition: inline >> Content-length: 361 >> >> Hi, >> >> >> I want to use R on my mac. I can either download the mac version and use >> it there, or I can download it through windows on my mac and use the windows >> version. >> >> Which one would you recommend? My only concern about running the mac >> version is it said the MAC version may be incomplete. >> > > Said incomplete by whom? And in what way? > > R on the Mac is complete. > > With regard to R extensions (not R itself, but extensions), there are some, > only a few, I believe, packages not available as binary downloads from CRAN. > But in all cases, I've been able to build or obtain the ones I need. There > may be a very small number of packages available only for Windows. > >> Thanks! >> >> Mito >> > > -Don > -- > -------------------------------------- > Don MacQueen > Environmental Protection Department > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Livermore, CA, USA > 925-423-1062 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
