[Rcpp-devel] Fwd: Building and Installing an R package built under RcppArmadillo on Mac OS X

Slava Razbash slava.razbash at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 08:40:36 CEST 2011


Yes, I have concluded that I will be using RcppArmadillo - I have
noticed that it is easier to use after read the RcppGSL vignette.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 14 October 2011 at 16:51, Slava Razbash wrote:
> | I been planning to use RcppArmadillo to code packages intended for
> | release on CRAN. Following this discussion, it seems that I should
> | switch to RcppGSL because it does not have this function that causes
> | problems when compiling on Mac.
>
> No, I may have been overzealous.  After all, RcppArmadillo builds and so do
> the eight packages already depending on it (start here at long at per-package
> build results incl OS X: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppArmadillo/index.html
>
> It is true that OS X is stuck at g++ 4.2.1 but both Conrad (for Armadillo)
> and us (for RcppArmadillo) have so far managed to code around the
> restriction.
>
> So as Conrad wrote to me and Terrance in off-list email, this may "just" be a
> matter of an older Armadillo library being on the machine where Terrance
> tried this. I can't test this on OS X for lack of a machine.
>
> Lastly, RcppGSL is a proof of concept with a much worse interface. If you
> can, use RcppArmadillo for your projects.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
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>


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