Fwd: [R-downunder] Macintosh/ Fortran 77

Fink was very helpful when OS X was new and not much was otherwise available, without quite a bit of work in compilation and setting paths, for Macs. Nowadays it is probably better, especially for more specialist users, to install the relevant separate Mac packages. Fink puts software in non-standard places. This can cause problems in getting paths set up so that one gets the right version of software, when there's a mix of stuff installed via Fink and stuff installed directly. Fink may sometimes be a bit slow in providing updates when new versions become available.

Note however that I have had no very recent experience of Fink. I gave up using it to install new software some considerable time ago.

The Mac with OS X is a great Unix machine.

John,

John Maindonald email: john.maindonald_at_anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.

On 29 May 2008, at 2:49 PM, Simon Blomberg wrote:

> I don't use macs any more. However, do you know about Fink?
> http://www.finkproject.org/
>
> You'll probably find a lot of your favorite *NIX tools there,
> including
> fortran compilers.
>
> Simon.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:36 +1000, Matt Wand wrote:
>> Dear Subscribers,
>>
>> After years of making R packages
>> involving Fortran 77 coding on
>> a Linux or Unix server, I now
>> work on a Macintosh laptop.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there with
>> experience in the creation of
>> Fortran 77-based R packages on
>> Macintosh computers?
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,r-
>> Matt (www.uow.edu.au/~mwand)
>>
>>
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