Greetings and Salutations Simon,
I just wanted to elevate this e-mail once more as I'm sure many of us would be
willing to help; but, we're just not sure about the best way to go about it. If
you could provide guidance, I'm sure we could more actively contribute in a
positive way.
Sincerely,
JJB
On 12/18/17, 12:02 AM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of Balamuta, James Joseph"
<r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of balam...@illinois.edu> wrote:
Greetings and Salutations Simon,
Thanks for the response.
> If you want to help, a good start would be to start contributing
constructively.
I have no issue with spending time to fix different issues. I’ve written at
length about solutions to issues that have arisen in relation to compiled code
with macOS and actively work to support community packages.
However, I’m not sure how R/CRAN processes patches, bug tickets, or general
help.
c.f. macOS toolchain documentation bug
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17331
If you could answer a few quick questions for me, I’ll try to start making
improvements:
1. Is there a contributing document that describes the procedure regarding
patch submission?
a. I assume this would govern: https://svn.r-project.org/R/
2. If I wanted to update the macOS CRAN page, where is that repository?
3. To coordinate or propose changes before implementing them, is there a
good place to post?
Sincerely,
JJB
On 12/17/17, 11:40 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <r...@dune.urbanek.info> wrote:
Of course everything is a public repository (all of R and CRAN is) and
you can always submit a patch - but very few people do. We can only address
issues that are known. The toolchain is well documented as well both on the
CRAN page as well as in the manuals. If you don't bother to read either, there
is very little we can do about it. The Fortran compiler you refer to is still
provided for the Mavericks builds which are only few months old. If anyone has
suggestions for improvements, we're more than happy to accomodate them, but
unfortunately no one has been willing to put the effort into it - idle
complaints are of no help at all. If you want to help, a good start would be to
start contributing constructively.
Cheers,
Simon
> On 7/12/2017, at 6:21 AM, Balamuta, James Joseph
<balam...@illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings and Salutations All,
>
> First off, I want to say I really appreciate all the work that goes
into making R available on macOS. I realize that this is a time intensive
process. However, this is now the second consecutive time the macOS binary
release has lagged behind other platforms. As a result, would it be possible to
add another maintainer? Even more so, could we please update the macOS section
of CRAN to reflect the present status of the build? Some information is
severely outdated. In particular, on the tools page, there still is a link to
gfortran-4.2.3 – which hasn’t been used since R 3.0.0 (?) -- and an installer
for the custom compiler clang4 toolchain has yet to appear. If there is a
public repository or a means to submit a patch to address these issues I would
be more than happy to help since the current setup greatly impacts being able
to introduce students to HPC and interfacing with external libraries.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> JJB
>
> On 12/6/17, 4:22 AM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of peter dalgaard"
<r-sig-mac-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would guess that either Uwe/CRAN is swamped or Simon is
traveling to NZ, or both...
>
> -pd
>
>> On 6 Dec 2017, at 10:26 , Federico Calboli
<federico.calb...@helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I know that I can get the latest and greatest binaries from
http://r.research.att.com/ but I am puzzled why there are still no OSX R 3.4.3
binaries on CRAN. The Windows installer has been up a few days already. Is
there anything I am missing concerning this delay?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> F
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