On Apr 24, 2014, at 10:15 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you to all who replied. > > I did accept the upgrade to Mavericks last week. In retrospect I think it > was a mistake for me. Most of the changes are not relevant to my > workflow. One was an improvement. One was a big negative. > > The improvement is the handling of a secondary display screen. > The Desktop on that screen is now independent of the Desktops on the main > screen. The Desktop on the secondary screen is retained when I unplug the > secondary screen and then plug it back in. > > There are two big negatives is how Preview handles revision to my > pdflatex documents. > > Previously (OS X Lion), when I ran pdflatex, the pdf file was revised with > the display showing the same page and the same positioning on the page. > Now (Mavericks) the display jumps to the top left corner of the current page. > Since I keep the window focussed only on the part of the page with text, > that means the top and left margins dominate the new display. My > workaround is to construct an if statement that sets the margins to 0 > when I am in revision mode and gives them normal values otherwise. > > The other negative is that yellow stickies now appear in a Comic font instead > of a sedate font. Also, the alignment between the left marginal column of > yellow stickies and their location in the body of the document is broken. > clicking on the page number in the marginal listing moves the document > to the right page. But clicking on the sticky itself does not move the > marginal > listing to the matching sticky. > > An even more serious problem, and I don't know if this is Mavericks-specific > or more general to OS X, is that several R packages no longer work with > the released R-3.1.0. As of ":Last updated on 2014-04-25 04:47:05.", > latticeExtra gives an error with r-devel-osx-x86_64-gcc and a warning with > r-release-osx-x86_64-mavericks. Rich, On this issue, presumably you installed the Mavericks build of R 3.1.0. If you install the Snow Leopard build instead, this will be a non-issue. There are some CRAN packages that do not yet pass testing using the Mavericks R build and so will be unavailable to install as binaries yet. This post from Prof Ripley earlier this week may be helpful: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2014-April/010835.html Regards, Marc Schwartz > > I reverted back to R-3.0.3. I will try again with the R-patched when CRAN > shows all the packages I use are checking without warnings. > > Rich > <snip> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
