R GUI

Altoine Barker ndiscreet at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 09:22:02 PST 2008


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Here is the best way I came up with coming to one singe result:

port search R* | grep math | grep R

HTH

- -Altoine

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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