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att / rcloud

Collaborative data analysis and visualization
http://rcloud.social
MIT License
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Mac OSX installation instructions? #2049

Open plpxsk opened 8 years ago

plpxsk commented 8 years ago

The top of the INSTALL.md file suggests instructions are for Linux.

Can the instructions be made explicit for Mac and Windows?

Also, install fails for me on OS X El Capitan.

gordonwoodhull commented 8 years ago

We don't support running the server on Windows. (R in windows does not have a proper fork function IIRC.)

We will endeavor to add OSX install instructions, although they are only slightly different.

gordonwoodhull commented 8 years ago

For this release, we hope to provide a DMG installer and Docker image.

Unfortunately, due to the huge number of dependencies, installing RCloud is never a simple task, especially if anything has been installed previously. We do hope to improve the install docs in the future, but for the purpose of trying RCloud out locally, DMG or Docker is probably the best way to go.