On Oct 10, 2012, at 5:26 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Lisa Beach wrote: > >> Hello to all, >> >> I am trying to get the R software but I have an old Mac with old software >> (version 10.4.11). >> I have been to the archive page but I have absolutely no clue what I need to >> download since there are several options. > > Or maybe there are no options? > >> Would someone be able to tell me exactly which file(s) I need to download? > > Copying from the ATT Research page: > > "The current build supports only Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or higher. Older > versions of OS X are not supported in binary form, but R can be compiled from > sources for such legacy OS versions. Last released version for Mac OS X 10.4 > (Tiger) was R 2.10.1."
I'm not sure if that statement is correct. There are .dmg files at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/ and I'm pretty sure that is how R version for the Mac are distributed. Why not see if you can get satifaction with: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/R-2.10.1.dmg > > Also not stated in your description is what CPU you have (PPC vs. x386). The binary Mac versions were cross-compiled for both architectures. > > I don't know how easy it will be to get the required Xcode for 10.4.x > software which would definitely be needed to compile R from sources. You will > need to do some searching at support.apple.com (or whatever that domain might > be.) When I updated to 10.6.8 I was told by the Apple rep that they would > soon be discontinuing availability of CD copies of that version. I'm pretty > sure you will not be able to get that software from Simon or CRAN. You should > probably be checking to see if you can get a working copy of Xcode. > >> >> Thanks >> Lisa >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > David Winsemius, MD > Alameda, CA, USA > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac David Winsemius, MD Alameda, CA, USA _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
