[Rcpp-devel] RcppOctave on Windows: testing needed

[Steve Lianoglou]

Just to close this out (for posterity again).

Dominick had pointed out to me off list that the octave formula isn't
in the default homebrew install, and to get it you've got to "tap"
their science repository by following the instructions here:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science

I had forgotten that I added those a while ago, so thanks again Dominick!

-steve

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Steve Lianoglou
<lianoglou.steve at gene.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Computational Biologist
> Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
> Genentech



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Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Genentech