The detailed update is very much appreciated Prof Ripley. Many thanks!
-Bob On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > So far I have encountered few problems. R.app runs but I do not normally > use it so my tests were minimal. > > My observations are about installing packages from source. > > - It seems Apple has been tidying up, and I had ca 20GB more free space > after upgrading (which is worthwhile on my MBA with a 128GB SSD). It seems > that includes removing some headers, including those for openssl (used by > packages PKI and RSclient - package opensssl uses its own). This is but the > latest instance in a long-term trend, e.g. iodbc, pcre and liblzma have > libraries but no headers. > > - Finally the POSIX 2008 function clock_gettime is supported (and will be > used by R): but package scrypt calls it incorrectly. > > Xcode 8 is available for EL Capitan but I would caution against using it > there (despite it being pushed as an update from the AppStore). AFAICS > (and googling will find other reports) it defaults to the macOS 10.12 SDK > and that declares functions such as clock_gettime not available in El > Capitan. (I believe that R checks thoroughly enough not to be caught by > this.) > > There is a further problem with Xcode 8, also seen on Sierra. Packages > using xml2-config (such as XML) fail to install. Apple modified > xml2-config to look on the SDK path, which means packages using it attempt > to link to .tbd files rather than .dylibs. Which should be OK but the > supplied .tbd attempt to link to libraries removed in Sierra and so linking > fails. (This is not a problem with the version 8 of the Command Line Tools, > only available for Sierra.) > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac