Good news on the Macintosh front

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

It turns out to be pretty easy. The only dependency is that you have
to have X Windows installed before you do anything. So

http://ggobi.org/downloads/#mac sez:

"Installing GGobi is a simple three step process:

1. First, make sure you have X11 installed: look in Applications/
Utilities. If it's not there, you'll need to install it from your OS X
DVDs.
2. Next, install Gtk2 (20 meg)
3. And finally, GGobi 2.1.8 itself (5 meg)

On some computers, it takes a very long time to start up the first
time, so please be patient."

After you've done all that, then install R. That is at

http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/macosx/R-2.8.1.dmg

Finally, start up R and type

install.packages("ctv")

It will ask which CRAN repository you want to use. Pick the one at the
bottom, which is in Seattle.

Then type

library(ctv)
update.views("Graphics")

This takes a while, but it will install everything you need.

Then type

help.start()

This will bring up a browser with links to all the manuals, all of the
packages installed and a search box.

[Thomas]

Thanks for your help Ed. Just a hint for OS X people: the binary pkg
installers work wit R. The macport gtk2 doesn't get found, so use the
dmg files from the ggobi.org website.

On Mar 28, 12:07 am, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zzn...@gmail.com>
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