[rkward-devel] Installing new packages using RKWard on Mac OS X

[meik michalke]

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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