On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:10 AM, peter dalgaard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm afraid that Power PC support went out when Simon's build system died.
> 
> CRAN says that "This binary distribution of R and the GUI supports Intel 
> (32-bit and 64-bit) based Macs on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow 
> Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion)." Notice "Intel based".
> 
> Versions up to 2.15.0 are in the "old" subdirectory. I'm not sure which one 
> was the last to support PPC.
> 

R 2.15.0 is the last release that supports PowerPC but updated packages for the 
2.15 branch don't. Therefore I'd say 2.14.2 is the last R version that supports 
PowerPC including packages.

Cheers,
Simon


> 
> On Sep 11, 2012, at 13:44 , christine english wrote:
> 
>> Dear R-sig-mac:
>> 
>> Hi!   Can someone Please help me.   I have downloaded R-2.15,1-signed.pkg
>> onto my emac desktop (2001) w/ OS 10.5.8 leopard.   I am not a tech savy
>> person (yet-I want to learn) and do not what to do to coax the program to
>> open.
>> Double clicking R gets an instant message-R is not supported on this
>> framework.   According to the specs, that should not be so.
>> 
>> Can you please help?
>> 
>> I am using the application for a statitiscs course (COURSERA-Lecturer Prof.
>> Andrew Conway-Princeton).
>> 
>> Thank you
>> Christine English
>> 
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