1) Installing R is my immediate goal for installing GCC and a necessary condition to my running MacPorts. Sufficient condition for my running MacPorts is running R, GnuCash, and an SSH friendly file manager on my Mac desktop. There are a handful of other open source software packages I'd like to run also. 2) I was running the binary distribution of R. Version 2.5.0 (the latest) comes with an update installation of tcl/tk. As far as I can tell, updating tcl/tk on the Mac keeps MacPorts from installing. I intentionally updated tcl/tk when I first bought this machine a year ago because I was using it to script menus for my R programs. I don't do that sort of thing anymore, wanted to try MacPorts, and couldn't figure out how to back out my tcl/tk update so I backed up all of my personal files, reinstalled OSX, and tried to use MacPorts to install GCC on bare metal. One thing I know for sure, there isn't any software conflict keeping GCC from installing. ;-) Chuck On May 15, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Marc André Selig wrote:
On 5/15/07, Charles White <chuck@chuckandmaggi.com> wrote:
3) My eventual goal is to install R for statistical computing.
I realize this may be besides the point, but there is a binary distribution of R for OS X (including an Aqua interface) available from http://cran.r-project.org. If your main goal is just to use R, this might save you some hassle.
Regards, Marc