[Rcppoctave-user] RcppOctave on Mac OS

[Renaud Gaujoux]

Hi,

primary discussions on how to get RcppOctave working on Mac OS can be found
on this thread:

http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcppoctave-user/2013-October/000010.html

Tests were carried on on a Mac
Here is a summary of what we've got so far, thanks to Dominick and Steve:

  * Preliminary tests show that RcppOctave builds against Octave, when the
later is built from source using the instructions from http://wiki.octave
.org/Octave_for_Mac

  * Mac Ports octave packages are out-dated (3.2.4) and RcppOctave will not
build against them

  * Homebrew has up-to-date Octave versions, which seem to work fine with
RcppOctave. The reference instructions to install it can be found at
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Homebrew.
Basically this amounts to:
    1. install XCode and its Command Line Tools
    2. install homebrew
    3. add the homebrew/science repository (tap in brewing language):

       $ brew tap homebrew/science
       $ brew update && brew upgrade
       $ brew tap --repair #may not be necessary
       $ brew install gfortran
       $ brew install octave

There was an issue due to gfortran not being found (not sure if this would
be the case after brew install gfortran), and Dominick provided a solution
here:
http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcppoctave-user/2013-October/000020.html

More details when we know more...

Bests,
Renaud
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