Peter pretty much summed it up. Just two notes. On Apr 27, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> "iit512" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am highly disappointed of the following decision: >> >> === ... Starting with R 2.3.0, CRAN binaries support Mac OS X 10.4 >> (Tiger) and higher only. === >> Not that we have a choice - Intel Macs are supported only with 10.4 and we don't have the resources to maintain two systems in parallel (and a set of compilers and libraries and packages and ...). >> [...] >> So, the question is, is there any volunteers who could produce R >> binaries for Mac OS X 10.3.9? Since it will be "unofficial", I >> will provide the Web space. > > I don't think alternative web space is necessary. There's no rule > that CRAN binaries have to be made by the core team, and some of > the Linux versions aren't. The real problem is whether anyone wants > to lock their precious Macs to an obsolete version of the OS... > For the time being I still have access to the old machine that I was using for 10.3 ppc builds. I can't promise that it will stay on 10.3 for long (it's a server that is used for other purposes, too), but for now there is a binary and some packages - check out http:// R.research.att.com/ (near the bottom of the page). Please use only if you really have no way to upgrade to Tiger. If anything breaks, it breaks - this is strictly unofficial and without any support. Remember - you can NOT use CRAN binaries on 10.3, so don't even try to install binary packages from CRAN for this one. And, please, don't fill any bug reports, either - get a Tiger instead ;). Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
