This page is to enable faculty and students in the Department of Biostatistics @ JHSPH to set up a Mac OS X 10.4. (Tiger) configuration for a convenient and efficient scientific computing environment. If you have suggestions for improvements or catch an error, please send an email to Ingo.
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X11 Developer tools
On the installation DVD (1), go to
Xcode Tools → Xcodetools.mpkg
You also might want to install the X11SDK package:
Xcode Tools → Packages → X11SDK.pkg
on the installation DVD.
X11
On the installation DVD (scroll down in the Finder window!) click on Optional Installs , follow the lead, and select X11 under Applications when you get to the Installation Type in the installation process. If you want to drag it to your Dock, you'll find the X11 icon in Applications → Utilities . In any case, is very convenient to have the Terminal on your dock - you also find it in Applications → Utilities (or even better, use iTerm - see below under free stuff).
Firefox,
iTerm,
Browser plugin for pdfs
and select through the [ Xcode Tools → Xcodetools.mpkg ] In [ Applications : Utilities ] click on X11.app
X11 Developer tools In [ Applications : Installers : Xcode Tools ] click on Developers.mpkg
X11 Developer tools SDK In [ Applications : Installers : Xcode Tools : Packages ]
Note: You can also find those by using the search bar in the Finder.
Apple's X11 http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/download/. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/
Fink binary installer (version 0.8. as of September 18 2005).
http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php?phpLang=en.
We ignored a warning message.
Fink commander
http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/
We ignored warning messages!
Drag the FinkCommander into the Applications folder.
Norton anti-virus http://www.jhu.edu/anti-virus/
[ Packages in bold face we think you really need, the others are recommended ]
aspell
auctex
detex
dict
emacs21
foiltex
gimp
gv (we picked ghostscript, ghostscript-font)
imagemagick
ispell
latex2html
latex2rtf
mysql
pdfscreen
pdfslide
psutils
spell
tcltk
tetex
xdvi
xfig
[ Download from ~gp/mac.files ]
.emacs
.profile
.bashrc
.alias
R
http://cran.r-project.org/
Check out the Mac FAQ page
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RAqua-FAQ.html
Note: The install.packages option may not work from the command line unless you install tcltk version 8.4. This may go away with Tiger. Click here to learn more.
ESS
http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/Manual/readme.html.
Place in /sw/share/emacs/site-lisp
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
LatexIT http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/latexit.html
Jabref http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
Browser plugin http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
Quicksilver http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ Launch applications without using the mouse.
Microsoft Office [ departmental license ]
Acrobat Reader [ upgrade ]
BBEdit Lite (ver 6.1.2) for OS X
Upgrade Stuffit expander standard [ also bought license for DropStuff ]
Palm desktop 4.0