Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-02 Thread Rainer Krug
> On 2 Apr 2020, at 10:15, Patrick Schratz wrote: > > AFAIK most people on that list would vote hard against installing R via > homebrew for several reasons - maybe there should be a section about this on > the R dev / CRAN page to address this topic, @Simon? Otherwise this will come > up a

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-02 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I do same, including Rstudio (Cask). Once in a while after major updates I need to reinstall all my extra packages, so I have written me a little script along the lines of #!/usr/local/bin/Rscript local({ r <- getOption("repos") r["CRAN"] <- "http

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-02 Thread Patrick Schratz
AFAIK most people on that list would vote hard against installing R via homebrew for several reasons - maybe there should be a section about this on the R dev / CRAN page to address this topic, @Simon? Otherwise this will come up again and again. Anyhow, this is also not relating to the initial

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
I am using Homebrew on a Mac (two Macs - one at home, one at work) instead of the official R package, and I did not have any problems after upgrades - maybe I am lucky, maybe not as picky in defining “problem”, but my suggestion would be to try R from homebrew to install R. OK - no support fro

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/04/2020 2:48 p.m., Carl Witthoft wrote: If I should ask over at r-sig-debian instead of here, please tell me. I don't wish to clog r-sig-mac with off-topic stuff. I've been watching the massive headaches people are dealing with trying to keep R fully compatible with each MacOS X upgra

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-01 Thread Eberhard W Lisse
Actually, you can easily run Linux in Virtual Box. But I agree, with Homebrew there is tons of unix tools available from the command line, and then some. el — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5 On 1 Apr 2020, 23:42 +0200, Simon Urbanek , wrote: > Carl, > > I would argue that you won't really gain

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
Carl, I would argue that you won't really gain anything - if you use R the Linux-way (build R from sources), it would be the same on macOS and Linux - and some people do that. So for R I don't think there is a difference. I'm using Linux for everything other than my desktop/laptop and the main

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-01 Thread Hervé Pagès
My 2 cents: Just go for the inexpensive desktop + Linux. Debian-based or RedHat-based distros are great for developing R/Bioconductor packages. I've been maintaining/troubleshooting package builds on Linux/Windows/Mac for 15 years and Linux is **by far** the easiest platform to deal with. Still

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-01 Thread Bert Gunter
As you are asking about R experience from Unix-alike OS users, I think you would clearly do better to ask on the - debian and/or -fedora sigs. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bl

[R-SIG-Mac] Transitioning from Mac to LInux?

2020-04-01 Thread Carl Witthoft
If I should ask over at r-sig-debian instead of here, please tell me. I don't wish to clog r-sig-mac with off-topic stuff. I've been watching the massive headaches people are dealing with trying to keep R fully compatible with each MacOS X upgrade, I'm wondering whether replacing my iMac