[rkward-users] version for MAC OS?

Agustin Lobo alobolistas at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 20:20:16 UTC 2009


I understand. I can help, but I'm not qualified for being
the person making the native version for Mac OS, unless I get
detailed directions on what to do.
Maybe the developers (Simon Urbanek) of R for Mac OS X 
(http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/)
would be interested?

Agus

Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 04 December 2009, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>> Is there a version of RKward for Mac OS (i.e. Leopard)?
>> Plans for it? While the default GUI for Mac is good, RKward is better...
> 
> RKWard uses some X11-specifics, so I suppose it cannot be compiled natively for 
> Mac OS. I think it should work with X11 on Mac just fine, but I'm pretty 
> ignorant about this, and I don't even know, whether that would imply 
> installing X11-versions of KDE, Qt and R as well.
> 
> Creating a native version for Mac OS should not be too hard, I believe, but 
> obviously it would require someone with at least basic knowledge of Mac OS, 
> and access to a Mac for testing. As you will have guessed, I don't have 
> either. If anybody would like to give it a shot, I'd be happy to help as much 
> as I can, but I just can't port it myself.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas




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