[Rcpp-devel] RcppOctave on Windows: testing needed

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem here is that Mac Ports installs a very old version of Octave.
> Installing the latest version (3.6.4) from source seems to resolve the
> issue. At least .O$version() works!
>
> Installing Octave from source under MacOS takes some work due
> to many dependencies, and the need for work-arounds for Apple
> changes and deprecated features. See, for example:
> http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Mac

Nice work!

For the sake of future wanderers landing on this thread via google,
these days the "preferred" package manager on OSX seems to be
homebrew:

http://brew.sh

It's so good, Simon Urbanek doesn't hate it, yet ... which is not to
say that he endorses it ;-)

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2013-September/010303.html

They've also got the latest octave on tap:

  $ brew info octave | head -n2
  octave: stable 3.6.4
  http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index.html

HTH,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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