The wiki currently suggests installing the command line tools by installing Xcode, a 5GB download & 9GB install size. I suggest it instead suggest simply running xcode-select --install in a terminal, which installs simply the command line tools alone. Further, I think some of the packages on which …

[image] mike-lawrence: suggest it instead suggest simply running xcode-select --install in a terminal, which installs simply the command line tools alone. this is an excellent suggestion and I will add it to the wiki page.

[image] mike-lawrence: macports was a mess. Homebrew is far superior. One of the compilers we needed to test was only available on Macports. The whole thing’s a mess. I’m not a huge fan of Linux package management. It never worked very well for me because of all the dependencies. And we’v…

[image] mitzimorris: many mac users don’t know how to fire up a terminal window Ok, how about this: https://github.com/mike-lawrence/install_rstan_mac/archive/master.zip Inside the zip will be a file called “install_rstan.applescript” that, when double-clicked, will open applescript editor w…

Installation and compile time are two big issues we’re going to try to tackle head on this year. We’re hiring right now (at Columbia) for an operations/build/deployment person to help out.

Fyi, there’s a nice gui installer for the Mac OS tool chain now: https://github.com/coatless/r-macos-rtools

Cool! Has anyone verified that it worked?

Greetings and Salutations folks, Yes, it does indeed work as the toolchain tries to mirror exactly how CRAN builds the binary. For details, see: https://gist.github.com/coatless/ef89c622858b18164195befee2f06d55 Though, it’s noisy in the default state because it does not include the CXXFLAGS recom…

Thanks @coatless for putting all this together.

[image] coatless: the toolchain tries to mirror exactly how CRAN builds the binary. Neat, and thanks for explaining (and sharing the build). [image] coatless: it’s noisy in the default state because it does not include the CXXFLAGS recommended on the Installing RStan on Mac or Linux wiki…

[image] Bob_Carpenter: coatless: it’s noisy in the default state because it does not include the CXXFLAGS recommended on the Installing RStan on Mac or Linux wiki page. What is the default? Both -O3 (in CXXFLAGS) and -mtune=native (in CXX) are necessary for optimal compiled code. The former…

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Let me just link this thread to the O2 vs O3 thread: -O2 vs -O3 compiler optimization level

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