hi frederik, thanks for the report!
Am Montag, 24. September 2012, 13:10:17 schrieb Frederik Aust: > Since the latest easy-to-install Version of RKWard for Mac OS X > I've been successfully advertising RKWard to my department and they are > thinking about switching from SPSS to RKWard as primary statistics software. well, that's fabulous :-) > After some research I found that this problem is probably specific to RKWard > because "R for Mac OS X recognizes packages in two forms: binary > packages and source packages. [...] Unlike on other unix systems, R for > Mac OS X installs binary packages by default, i.e. install.packages will > look for binary repositories unless instructed otherwise." ok, thanks for confirming this. i already noticed that contrary to how i interpreted the docs, R was installing source and not binary packages. i assume this is the default behaviour of the R port we've bunbled. we need to check whether the alternative R port (which exists, but i couldn't get it to compile when i tried) behaves differently, or if it's possible to set a different default for the bundle/portfile of RKWard. could you try to start the bundled R binary directly (should be somehwere in /opt/rkward/bin/) and call install.packages(<some_package>) to see how it behaves independently? @thomas: or could it be that RKWard triggers source installation of packages? maybe because the system is not windows and it doesn't check for mac OS yet here? viele grüße :: m.eik -- dipl. psych. meik michalke abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie heinrich-heine-universit"at
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