Nightly binary builds of R-devel for macOS are available: http://mac.r-project.org
~~~ Kylie Ariel Bemis (she/her) Khoury College of Computer Sciences Northeastern University kuwisdelu.github.io<https://kuwisdelu.github.io> On May 15, 2020, at 12:48 PM, brodie gaslam via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org<mailto:r-devel@r-project.org>> wrote: On Friday, May 15, 2020, 12:13:04 PM EDT, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org<mailto:e...@debian.org>> wrote: On 15 May 2020 at 15:41, Martin Maechler wrote: | <whining> | | Why does nobody anymore help R development by working with | "R-devel", or at least then the alpha, beta and the "RC" | (Release Candidate) versions that we release daily for about one | month before the final release? | | Notably a highly staffed enterprise such as Rstudio (viz the bug | report 17800 above), but also others could really help by | starting to use the "next version" of R on a routine basis ... | | <whining/> Seconded. Without testing we can never know. R Core does their part. I provided weekly Debian binaries. One each for the two alphas releases, for the beta release, for the release candidate. It is easy to use these, for example in a Docker container. It is also easy to use this on a normal machine as they are standard (Debian) packages: install, try some tests, uninstall, revert to previous version by installing that. Dirk This is a very reasonably request, and all useRs who benefit from the tireless work of R-core should consider doing it. I have considered it, but compiling R from sources on OS X has been my stumbling block. At least last time I tried I got stuck at the Fortran step. It doesn't help I have very limited experience compiling software of the complexity of R. Really, I've only done it within the warm welcoming confines of the vagrant image Tomas Kalibera set up for `rchk`. I also use r-devel on docker, but that isn't very practical for day-to-day usage, which is what I think we need. What would it take to generate pre-release binaries for OS X (and Windows)? I imagine if such were available the volume of testers would increase dramatically (at least, I haven't seen them if they exist). Maybe something the R Consortium would consider funding? Best, B. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org<mailto:R-devel@r-project.org> mailing list https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-devel&data=02%7C01%7Ck.bemis%40northeastern.edu%7C66883f8d39094f87847608d7f8efd23e%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637251581223782724&sdata=cVYbvv%2B2fqwKpMUCM6iBGu4wLOLQvQUwv4SOapZf5mM%3D&reserved=0 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
