September 24, 2005

  • Why is it time and content seem to intersect on Saturdays?

    Whatever the reason, I did have a minor success with my PowerMac and R
    yesterday.  I have been limping along with R on the Mac, using
    only precompiled library code.  And since one package I tend to
    use a lot (Hmisc by Frank Harrell and friends) didn't work right, I
    have been hampered by having to export datasets to my PC workstation
    and run things there that run under Hmisc.  So what was the
    success?  I figured out:

    1.  How to run the source code compiler for R on the Mac.
    2.  I discovered that the compiler for R needed an implementation
    of g77 (I know, that's not as good as g95, but it's what was required
    by Hmisc).
    3.  I figured out how to load up the latest g77 code.  (I really like the website hpc.sourceforge.net.)
    4.  I got Hmisc compiled and running - hooray!

    Of course, this sucked up about an hour and a half, but it was worth it.