Yes, there is still quite a list of issues with Yosemite itself (Java, Mail, ...) - although we have covered most known issues on the R side, I wouldn't call Yosemite itself a stable OS yet. If you don't have to upgrade (family sharing and other new features) then I wouldn't recommend it at this point.
Cheers, Simon On Dec 25, 2014, at 6:52 AM, peter dalgaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Also notice that Yosemite itself still has issues that were not or were only > partially resolved in 10.10.1. I currently see > > Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air-2:BUILD pd$ > > which is better than 10.10.0 where I was up to -26 at some point, but the > upgrade apparently didn't resolve this (machine detecting itself as another > machine) completely. > > Rather more infuriating is that the UI is laggy, in particular, Finder can > get so slow that it becomes nigh-on impossible to scroll to and select a > simple file. I'm sure Brian would be (is being?) driven nuts by inertia of > the zoom feature. Periodic reboots help, but this is supposed to be Unix... > > And Firefox still doesn't speak Java - it detects the plugin, then claims > that it is missing when you go to a page that uses it. Fortunately, the two > sites that I needed it for have both switched to Javascript. > > - Peter D. > >> On 25 Dec 2014, at 08:52 , Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 25/12/2014 02:16, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> Yes, the bugs have been well and truly worked out. >> >> Worked around, more precisely. >> >> There are still bugs in Yosemite's handling of environment variables, and R >> >= 3.1.2 has workarounds that resolve some of those. But they can still >> bite when building R or installing packages. >> >> I have found that >> >> unsetenv FOO >> setenv FOO value >> >> resolved the issues I had. (csh syntax, works in bash too.) >> >> If you upgrade to Yosemite, do ensure that you have read the current R-admin >> manual and re-install the software it recommends. We have found that what >> needed to be reinstalled varied between nominally identical systems ... >> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#OS-X . >> >>> >>> Hadley >>> >>> On Thursday, December 25, 2014, Ralph O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The missives about running R/Rstudio under Yosemite seem to have died down. >>>> >>>> For the vast majority of us who are "vanilla" uses of the current versions >>>> of R and Rstudio, is Yosemite (10.10.current) now as safe as Mavericks >>>> (10.9.current)? >>>> >>>> I'm hoping a single short response from one of the R-on-Mac leaders will >>>> give me (and thousands more) either a green or red light at this point. >>>> >>>> Thanks for all the great work you do. >>>> >>>> Ralph O'Brien, PhD >>>> Retired Professor of Biostatistics >>>> Case Western Reserve University >>>> (but still keenly professionally active) >>>> 910.553.4224; Cell: 216.312.3203 >>>> >>>> *“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I >>>> learn.”* >>>> >>>> *― Benjamin Franklin* >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>>> [email protected] <javascript:;> >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] >> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford >> 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
