[R] Running R on MacOS X

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

> Hi there -- I downloaded the MacOS X binaries of R and followed the
> instructions on installing it, and when I go to perform a tree function, I
> get the error "Error: couldn't find function "tree"".  Do I need to somehow
> preload the function?  If so, how do I do that?

What do you want the `tree' function to `perform'?  Let me guess that you
want a clone of S-PLUS.  In that case the nearest equivalent is in package
`tree' (surprise, surprise) loaded by library(tree), *but* we recommend you
to use the facilities of package rpart, which should be in all binary
distributions of R.

> Also, update.packages() works for some packages, but not all -- it often
> fails in the compilation.  I have g77 installed, as well as gnome.

That's a Mac-specific problem (more than 90% of packages compile out of
the box on Unix, Linux and Windows), and your report is far too vague to
make a useful comment on.

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