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Setup OSX for R

Bhaskar Karambelkar on January 20, 2017

Originally Published on my Personal Blog. This is a rather details documentation of my OSX setup for R usage using homebrew. You can get away with...
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Shayan Shahand • Edited

Awesome stuff! Many thanks. Just wanted to add that using Anaconda to install and manage Python and R environments, and using SDKman to install Java and Scala stacks is generally a better idea.

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Bhaskar Karambelkar

The R channel of anaconda is woefully outdated. I won't recommend it just for that reason. I was not aware of SDKman so thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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Chip Oglesby

Looks like this would be the perfect case for a docker image, no?

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Herbert Kagumba

Is it normal for the gcc install to take forever?

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Bhaskar Karambelkar

Wait till you get to the mactex part. ;)