This is actually just a copy of an article from ubuntu.com, but they tend to move things around and I like to have short search times. Apart from that, this works for FreeBSD and even for Windows (tested with Windows 7) as well. Sorry for this this blatant plagiarism, but it might be also to your advantage ;) One more note: If you want to create a bootable USB stick to be used on a Mac/OS X, do not forget to format the stick with Disk Utility to HFS+ with a GUID partition table. ...

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I just cleaned up my home brew cellar and had problems reinstalling R. I got the old well-known error message: brew install r ==> Downloading http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.1.tar.gz Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/r-2.15.1.tar.gz Error: This formula requires a fortran compiler,... Reinstalling gfortran (which was actually installed already) did not help and so I decided to trick home brew until the problem is fixed, with the following: export FC=`which gfortran` brew install r Surprise surprise, it worked! :] ...

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