Mac OS X

I'm confused...does this mean Leopard is actually creating files?

Assuming that you already have the R statistics program installed on your Mac, the following can be used to install a package from the command line.

First, get the .tgz file (we'll use plotrix as the package we want to install):

Check that R is properly installed:

Install the package:

If you use Blast2GO on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (and haven't been derailed completely by Apple moving Java Web Start around), you might have run into the issue of not being able to view BLAST results in a web browser. Blast2GO even helpfully opens a window for you to choose which browser you want to use, but no matter what you select, nothing happens.

I've been using WaterRoof, a frontend for ipfw on OS X. It's only a bit clunky and works well. What is particularly endearing, however, is its response when you have configured your rules and you tell WaterRoof that you want your computer to load them at startup: