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duber
duber

Reputation: 2869

Installing R with Homebrew

I'm trying to install R using Homebrew. I ran these commands which are recommended elsewhere on SO:

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install R

For brew tap homebrew/science, I'm receiving this error:

Error: Already tapped!

For the second command, I receive this:

Error: No available formula for r

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 180

Views: 144569

Answers (14)

whitewatercn
whitewatercn

Reputation: 38

it's 2024 now, if you install by this answer , you will get

> brew tap homebrew/science

Error: homebrew/science was deprecated. This tap is now empty and all its contents were either deleted or migrated.

you should install directly by

brew install r
brew install rstudio #if you need

Upvotes: 1

sharshi
sharshi

Reputation: 1003

As per the homebrew page, it is installed with the following command:

brew install --cask r

Upvotes: 4

JS.Park
JS.Park

Reputation: 39

homebrew/science was deprecated So, you should use the following command.

brew tap brewsci/science

Upvotes: 1

haddr
haddr

Reputation: 3028

As of 2017, it's just brew install r. See @Andrew's answer below.

As of 2014 (using an Yosemite), the method is the following:

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install r

The gcc package (will be installed automatically as a required dependency) in the homebrew/science tap already contains the latest fortran compiler (gfortran), and most of all: the whole package is precompiled so it saves you a lot of compilation time.

This answer will also work for El Capitan and Mac OS Sierra.

In case you don't have XCode Command Line Tools (CLT), run from terminal: 

xcode-select --install

Upvotes: 239

george
george

Reputation: 1829

You can also install R from this page:

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

It works out of the box

Upvotes: 1

ThinkBonobo
ThinkBonobo

Reputation: 16495

If you run 

xcode-select --install

you do you not need to install gcc through brew, and you will not have to waste time compiling gcc. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/24967219/2668545 for more details.

After that, you can simply do

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install r

Upvotes: 8

Xander Dunn
Xander Dunn

Reputation: 2402

brew install cask
brew cask install xquartz
brew tap homebrew/science
brew install r

This way, everything is packager managed, so there's no need to manually download and install anything.

Upvotes: 23

Joseph Lust
Joseph Lust

Reputation: 19975

This is what actually worked for me on OSX Yosemite.

brew install cask
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install r

Upvotes: 8

a.bose
a.bose

Reputation: 151

Working on El Capitan 10.11.1, the steps I followed are

brew install cask    
brew tap homebrew/science    
brew install r

Upvotes: 15

ecoe
ecoe

Reputation: 5312

brew install homebrew/science/r

works on OS X 10.11.6.

Upvotes: 3

Amir
Amir

Reputation: 1418

If you meant "r" specifically:
It was migrated from homebrew/science to homebrew/core.

For r 3.4.3 Mac High Sierra:

brew tap homebrew/core
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install r

Upvotes: 2

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 1457

As of 2017 / Brew 1.3.2 @ macOS Sierra 10.12.6 all you have to do is:

$ brew install r

You don't even need to tap homebrew/science since r is now a part of core formulae for the Homebrew (homebrew-core).

It will also install all dependencies automatically:

==> Installing dependencies for r: gmp, mpfr, libmpc, isl, gcc

There are two additional options you might want to know:

--with-java
Build with java support
--with-openblas
Build with openblas support

Upvotes: 132

Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 689

I am working MacOS 10.10. I have updated gcc to version 4.9 to make it work.

brew update
brew install gcc
brew reinstall r

Upvotes: 3

strivedi183
strivedi183

Reputation: 4831

I used this tutorial to install R on my mac, and it had me install xquartz and a fortran complier (gfortran) as well.

My suggestion would be to brew untap homebrew/science and then brew tap homebrew/science and try again, also, make sure you don't have any errors when you run brew doctor

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 30

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