I need the x11 for dummies instructions

[btoneill]

Yup, you're catching on

Brian

[edX]

ok, the next question has probably been asked a thousand times so if it's a long answer, just point me in the right direction.

my HD is quickly filling back up. can i install apps on my external drive? and what kind of path would they need?

[Darkshadow]

You should be able to, though you may have to manually move them there if you download them with fink. And the path would be /Volumes/drive_name/wherever_apps_are.

It should work fine - note that, like I said before, I haven't ever used fink, so if it does any "funny stuff" with the apps, and they have to be in one particular place, that won't work. It doesn't sound to me like this is the case, though. They probably only need to be there for fink to know you have them and/or to update them.

[edX]

Thanks Darkshadow!!

still wondering if anybody knows about if fink commander will check all files for R or if i need to do that from terminal?

[lurk]

I'm not quite sure if I understand the question but if you install R via finkcommander it should grab all of the depenedencys as well. It took a while on my machine since it had to compile GCC again to get Fortran support (go figure)....

-Eric

[edX]

well my question, in more generic terms is that if i know something is installed but fink commander doesn't recognise it as such, will it check my HD for it first or will it just go get a new one and then check. or do i need to let fink find it using terminal like i did with x11 and gimp?

at any rate, i'm completely baffled now because i have found an os x native version of R. the one i had previously downloaded had claimed to be wasn't as far as i could tell. in fact, i'm yet to figure out where it went at all. i may also download r-base thru fink and see how it works with the GUI that is in development for it. The native gui is not very intuitive, not that i expected it to be. But i originally downloaded R-1.5.1 from versiontracker and i swear it just disappears after i have run the installer. i'm sure it's eating up space onmy drive somewhere, but who knows where. i've searched with Find, i've made invisible files visible, etc. i'm stumped as to how to launch it.

but now i have r162 from the Cran site. there is also a 1.6.2 in the x11 version.
R, as it is, really reminds me of running SPSS on DOS many years ago no doubt that printing out the manual will help a lot.

i think i'm done with questions for now. i'll go play with my new toys on my new systems.

THANKS TO ALL!!

[edX]

ok, i'm back. you knew i would be. now i want to know if there is a way to save docs to an external drive. i can't seem to get out of my main drive from the save dialogues. and while i got openoffice running fine from an external drive, i still can't figure out how to save files in its own folder. also my external has a name with spaces in it and terminal won't seem to let me do any commands past the first word.

any suggestions here?

[Captain Code]

I haven't used OpenOffice before, but you can try navigating from your main drive to other drives by going into the /Volumes folder at the root of your main drive. It should have all the connected hard drives and CD drives in that folder.

You can escape a space in the terminal by using a backslash "\" before every space in the line (ex: /Volumes/Mac\ HD\ 2). That will tell the terminal to ignore the spaces. You can also enclose everything in quotes like "/Volumes/Mac HD 2"