R.framework-Versions-Resources-library-grDevices-libs-cairo_20150120.tgz in http://sourceforge.net/projects/outmodedbonsai/files/R/ are dropped in replacement to the cairo.so's in the official R binaries (2.15.3, 3.0.3, 3.1.2).
updated to cairo-1.12.18 and freetype-2.5.4. The official R binaries' were built with early freetype 2.4.x and cairo 1.11(?) and had a number of issues with some windows and mac system fonts; also the one in the official binaries were built with a freetype that's built differently from apple's and and therefore can interfere with other GUI applications' use of dfonts on Mac OS X. (that unfortunately means the most common typefaces like Time and Helvetica!). While doing that, I found that the official R-3.1.*-mavericks.pkg are crippled, compared to R-3.1.*-snowleopard.pkg. They have tiff functionality missing. Here are the sizes of the official binaries': 3918832 ./R-3.1.2-snowleopard/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/grDevices/libs/cairo.so 3778144 ./R-3.0.3/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/grDevices/libs/cairo.so 3170596 ./R-3.1.2-mavericks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/grDevices/libs/cairo.so 3252656 ./R-2.15.3/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/grDevices/libs/i386/cairo.so 3539992 ./R-2.15.3/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library/grDevices/libs/x86_64/cairo.so "R-3.1.2-mavericks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/grDevices/libs/cairo.so" is so much smaller, not because it is built with a better and newer compiler, but because tiff functionality is missing. The official R-3.1.*-mavericks.pkg is about 14MB smaller than R-3.1.*-snowleopard.pkg (from 55MB-ish to 70MB-ish). Looking carefully, the size differently did not come from better compilation - it is in 3 unrelated areas, one of the problematic: - the snowleopard builds come the manuals in pdf's, mavericks don't. That's about 14MB. - a few bundled gcc runtime libraries (libgcc/libfortran...) are quad arch in the former, and biarch in the latter. That's another 6 MB. - the missing tiff functionality. That affects both R_X11.so and cairo.so, and add up to about 1.5MB. And the 18-20MB difference compress down to 14MB. I don't know whether it actually offers any speed advantage, but I'd probably suggest stay away from the official mavericks builds, just because of missing functionality. It is missing from all of R 3.1.0, 3.1.1, and 3.1.2. The next thing I am doing is building the replacement for the cairo.dll's in the offical R windows binaries. Just watch out in the next few days in the same directory. ---------- not R-devel related below this point ------ I have finished with snpMatrix 1.19.0.20 5 days ago. Some of you may notice the documentations are already out - 19 months about 400 commit since 1.19.0.19, it comes with a snpStats compatibility mode; when that mode is on, about 1/3 of its internals are swapped to their snpStats-equivalent versions. Initially synchronized to snpStats x.x.x.8 - and I already mentioned that it is because of another GLM related bug, found on top of x.x.x.7. Sigh. snpMatrix 1.19.0.20 and snpStats x.x.x.8 are now really just waiting for me to finish with the cairo stuff (for R 3.1.x). The impatient can just read the new vignettes. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
