[GRASS5] Mac OSX binary install directions

[Thomas Adams]

Hamish,

I have done this, but how does one invoke the "Aqua R" from within GRASS 
using the 'StartR' application?

Tom



Hamish wrote:

>[Setting up GRASS on Mac OSX]
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>>>>3) Install R-statistics[2]
>>>>This is optional, but useful for geostats. Click on CRAN, choose a 
>>>>mirror, click on R Binaries, macosx, and download RAqua.dmg. Double
>>>>click on that package and install tcltk, libreadline, and finally
>>>>RAqua. This installs the OSX port of R to Applications/StartR.
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>>Why did you not install from fink?
>>This is not at all a criticism, but rather a legitimate query.
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>Two reasons:
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>a) I figured the R team had already gone to the trouble to Aqua-fy it,
>and the "offical" port would be better supported and more
>Mac-integrated.
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>b) The r-base package isn't yet present in either Fink's stable or
>unstable "current-10.3" branch.
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>I still think the Fink project is brilliant though.
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>>It has been my experience that one of the major sources of confusion
>>with OSX is that there are several options for installing unix
>>software (and the fact that some of them work better for particular
>>packages than others).
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>Welcome to the wonderful world of UNIX-powered. Confusing versions of
>the same thing for over 30 years. Still, I'd rather have 3 chances of
>finding a version that does exactly what I want versus 1 generic version
>that only partially does. That doesn't mean you can't put together an
>intergrated package with the components pre-chosen by an expert of
>course.
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>And if you think the tyranny of choice is bad on OSX, you should give
>Linux a try... eg:
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>[Debian]$ apt-cache search editor | wc -l
>    384
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>regards,
>Hamish
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