> On Jun 29, 2016, at 4:31 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> On Jun 27, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Jun 26, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Carl Witthoft <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi. >>> I D/L'd the 3.3.1 version of R for MacOSX and ran the installer. After >>> getting some "can't load" error messages, I discovered that the installer >>> had updated the MicrosoftROpen.app, not the "vanilla" R.app . Is this >>> expected behavior, or am I making a hash of my apps and libraries by trying >>> to keep both R and MRO available on my (Yosemite) machine? >> >> I don't know about MRO (sounds somewhat paradoxical ;)), but Apple Installer >> simply upgrades the application on your machine no matter where you moved it >> (whether you like it or not). If it really did upgrade your MRO app then it >> means Microsoft doesn't even bother changing the ID of the app which means >> they still claim it's our CRAN R which sounds really wrong given the name... > > When you look at the MRO installation of R, the MRO.app looks just like > your (and Stephan Iacus and the other contributors) R.app at least to my > intermediate-level understanding of how to measure similarity. It > includes citation of authorship but they did change the names of icons. > The TO-DO list is identical. The png ions for history, prefs, quit, the > NEWS text file, and many other items in the package contents are the > same. This is a side by sided display of the Package Contents (converted > to pdf): > > It would be no surprise if two installations of the same version > conflicted since they are using the same names for many modules and > because Revo/MS says they will conflict, unless that is ... they were in > different directories in the R.Framework tree, which is often the case > with the MRO releases, since they generally lag behind by one major > version level. My MRO version 3.2.2 has been working well alongside R > version 3.3.0 and now 3.3.1. RSwitch.app seems to "switch" everything > that is needful. > > -- > > The funny thing is that I ran the package installer for R 3.3.1 and it > installed it into the MRO package folder. If I dbl-click the MRO > package icon, I get, so far as I can tell, the R3.3.1 engine and the > usual packages, but don't know how to tell whether I've simply > clobbered MRO into nonexistence. >
Yes, Apple Installer will upgrade the app wherever it is. Since MS doesn't change the ID it pretends to be CRAN R.app so as far as OS X goes they are indistinguishable. Only MS can fix that problem by not re-using our ID for their binaries... I suspect that the same may be true for the framework (i.e. they may be using R Foundation ID there as well), but I didn't check. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
