Re: Fwd: [R-downunder] Macintosh/ Fortran 77

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 16:10 +1000, John Maindonald wrote:
> 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.

I was disappointed with OS X when it first came out because it seemed that Apple had shipped an OS which was essentially brain-damaged. So many of the useful unix tools, compilers etc were just missing. Also, Apple's philosophy of keeping the user away from the operating system details is very frustrating. Yes there is unix power to be had, but users are not encouraged to learn how to use it. Have things changed? I'm happy with Debian GNU/Linux nowadays anyway.

>
> 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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> > Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences
> > The University of Queensland
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> >
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> >
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-- 
Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. 
Lecturer and Consultant Statistician 
Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences 
The University of Queensland 
St. Lucia Queensland 4072 
Australia
Room 320 Goddard Building (8)
T: +61 7 3365 2506
http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb
email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au

Policies:
1.  I will NOT analyse your data for you.
2.  Your deadline is your problem.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for 
an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can 
be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey.

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