To give a general overview, I run all my command line software through homebrew rather than downloading binaries. I will try to keep this updated so that it doesn't become one of the other 1000 setup posts that worked when it was written but is unworkable by the time some frustrated person finds it. I have a pretty clean, maintainable setup now, which perhaps merits sharing so that others can avoid spending as much time as I have setting things up. statistical computing) on OSX can be a major pain.
Setting up software for data analysis (i.e.
