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It seems like a number of R packages use Fortran. I'm on Mac and it needs to Fortran compiler to be installed so that at least some of the R packages can be co
by davidf18 10y ago
It seems like a number of R packages use Fortran. I'm on Mac and it needs to Fortran compiler to be installed so that at least some of the R packages can be compiled when doing updates.
- bachmeier 10y agoR (the language, originally S) was created to be a "glue language" for compiled code, most of which was written in FORTRAN.