[Rcppoctave-user] RcppOctave on Mac OS

[Dominick Samperi]

I may have confused things by mentioning AT&T (and Simon) as a
source for gfortran. What I had in mind is that the version of gfortran
that is recommended when building R is available from that source
(see the R Mac OS FAQ). But this is not strictly necessary when
building Octave (or RcppOctave).



On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Renaud Gaujoux <
renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:

> 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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