There are thousands of Formula in the main Homebrew repository and you can “tap” other ( properly organized) GitHub repositories for other (usually task-specific) formula. (You can/should overlook the fact they use icky Ruby for this whole thing.)
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instructions for how to install (with optional patching of problematic code on particular setups).weird hex strings to help the Homebrew ecosystem now pwn you.where the main URL of the contents of the program/library is.the official location of the program/libraries “home”.Here’s a small-ish example (some Formula are fairly long/involved/complex) of a Homebrew Formula for the cowsay utility (what, you don’t like to have ASCII animals give you handy messages?): Homebrew’s inventory of packages comes from github repositories that contain “Formulas” for where to get package components and how to (literally) make them work on OS X. MacPorts is another third-party package manager for OS X, but I use Homebrew, so you get Homebrew examples here. It’s similar to apt, yum and other package managers on linux/BSD that enable you to install open source (and other types of) packages without having to do the download→unarchive→compile→curse→google→compile→curse→google some more→compile→smile→test→install dance manually. Homebrew is the “missing package manager for OS X”.
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However, if you have a thick skin and can be somewhat self-sustaining, Homebrew is a superb alternative to setting up your R environment (and other things) on your OS X system. Now, there are issues with this since getting “support” for what may be R issues will be very difficult on the official mailing lists as you’ll immediately be told to “use the official distribution” by some stalwart R folks (this happens on StackOverflow and other forums as well). A few of the comments suggested that an “all Homebrew” solution may be preferable for some folks. In a previous post I provided “mouse-heavy” instructions for getting R running on your Mac.
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