R GUI

[Andrei Tchijov]

Why bother with Mac port when R ppl have native mac gui?

On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:04 , David Epstein wrote:

>
> Does Macports have a port for the GUI for R, the statistical computing
> program? Is it in fact possible to have a Macport supplying a MacOsX  
> GUI
> (not necessarily R) that is invoked by double-clicking on an icon?
>
> My inability to use the port search facility efficiently became  
> evident on
> this issue, since my search for the R-gui failed miserably. "port  
> search R"
> brings in every port with an r in its name. "man port" advertises  
> that one
> can use regular expressions in the search, but fails to point to a
> particular set of regular expressions, ignoring the fact that there  
> are many
> "standard" collections of basic regular expressions, each likely to  
> have a
> different way of indicating word boundaries. I tried
> port search "\<R\>" and also port search "\bR\b",
> and was told there are no matches, even through "port info R works".  
> Nor
> could I figure out how to make the matching case-sensitive.
>
> So, if anyone can give me a hint on port search regular expressions,  
> that
> would be helpful.
> Thanks
> David
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