Emacs a headache on the Mac?? No way. The Mac, because a BSD Unix machine, is made for Emacs. For some of us, Mac OSX and Emacs are our native territory. Sure, R on the Mac can pose challenges that are different from those of Windows on the Mac, but that is another story.
John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm On 30/05/2010, at 3:34 PM, Víctor Manuel García-Guerrero wrote: > Hi, If you just move from windows to mac-osx maybe emacs could be a real > headache. So I recommend you to try with Eclipse for Mac or, if you have > some money, TextMate is awesome, but it is shareware. > > The link for eclipse is http://www.walware.de/goto/statet > > and the link for TextMate is http://macromates.com/ > > Good luck, > > ---------------- > Víctor Manuel García-Guerrero > PhD student, Centre of Demographic, Urban and Enviromental Studies, > El Colegio de México A.C., Mexico City. > > > > 2010/5/29 <r-sig-mac-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch> > >> Send R-SIG-Mac mailing list submissions to >> r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> r-sig-mac-requ...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> r-sig-mac-ow...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of R-SIG-Mac digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Oops --- still have problems building R from source. >> (Simon Urbanek) >> 2. Re: TinnR for Mac (Vincent Goulet) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:07:36 -0400 >> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> >> To: Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> >> Cc: R-Sig Mac <r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch> >> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Oops --- still have problems building R from >> source. >> Message-ID: <d1e0c43c-fcd3-46c5-8fc3-7e82c5ff8...@r-project.org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> On May 27, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >>> >>> On 28/05/2010, at 8:32 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>> >>> <SNIP> >>> >>>> But now, seriously, why don't use just follow the instructions and do >> exactly the following (copy/paste): >>>> >>>> rm -rf /tmp/build >>>> mkdir /tmp/build >>>> cd /tmp/build >>>> curl -O http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/src/base/R-2/R-2.11.0.tar.gz >>>> tar fxz R-2.11.0.tar.gz >>>> mkdir R-x86_64 >>>> cd R-x86_64 >>>> ../R-2.11.0/configure r_arch=x86_64 CC="gcc -arch x86_64" \ >>>> CXX="g++ -arch x86_64" F77="gfortran -arch x86_64" \ >>>> FC="gfortran -arch x86_64" OBJC="gcc -arch x86_64" \ >>>> --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib >>>> make -j`sysctl -n hw.ncpu` >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Your only technical issue was that fink was messing up your system, but >> now that it's gone, all you need to do is to use the regular instructions >> from FAQ/R-admin like all other people. >>> >>> >>> Well, that worked. At last. Thank you. >>> >>> But I ***do*** follow instructions. >> >> All I'll say is that a simple search in the archives is the first thing >> anyone should do before posting here and if one did it would save a lot of >> time for everyone: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-September/006470.html >> >> But don't plan to comment on this thread further. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> >>> I had been following instructions, >>> and they weren't working. These instructions are slightly/subtly >> different >>> from what I had previously been told to do. >>> >>> As to the ``regular instructions from FAQ/R-admin'' --- that's all very >> well >>> if you know where to look and what the relevant issues are. When you >> don't, >>> it makes searching for a needle in a haystack trivial by comparison. >>> >>> Thanks again for getting my problem sorted. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> Rolf Turner >>> ###################################################################### >>> Attention: >>> This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the >>> intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. >>> Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. >>> >>> This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal >>> www.marshalsoftware.com >>> ###################################################################### >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:53:43 -0400 >> From: Vincent Goulet <vincent.gou...@act.ulaval.ca> >> To: Jason Brown <brownj...@hotmail.com> >> Cc: "r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch> >> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] TinnR for Mac >> Message-ID: <729f20ac-4a01-4d9b-9782-9ab454dfb...@act.ulaval.ca> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Sorry for being very late to this thread, but since a few people mentioned >> Emacs, I'd like to chime in two things: >> >> 1. Emacs (with ESS) is a very nice solution that works exactly the same on >> Mac, Windows and Linux. It's also an excellent LaTeX editor (with the AUCTeX >> extension). >> >> 2. I now maintain an OS X version of my GNU Emacs distribution alongside >> the Windows version that has been available for a few years. It comes >> bundled with ESS, AUCTeX and some basic configuration. It is otherwise a >> stock GNU Emacs distribution, unlike Aquamacs that tries to be a Mac-ified >> Emacs. See >> >> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/emacs >> >> I usually post about updates to ess-help. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> >> Dr. Vincent Goulet >> Full Professor >> ?cole d'actuariat, Universit? Laval, Qu?bec >> vincent.gou...@act.ulaval.ca http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca >> >> Le mer. 14 avr. ? 21:57, Jason Brown a ?crit : >> >>> Hello. From what I can tell TinnR is only available for Windows. What >> is the editor of choice for Mac users? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >> End of R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 87, Issue 37 >> ***************************************** >> > > > > -- > Víctor Manuel García Guerrero > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac