On 10/30/07, Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Current status of R and Leopard: > > I don't have the release version of Leopard yet (waiting for the > DVD...), so the information below is based on tests using the latest > seed and user responses (see the list) in the last few days. > > * Building R > This was our priority and we have smoothed all the wrinkles as far as > I can see. Building current R from sources on Leopard works just > fine. You can build both R and the GUI in 32 and 64-bit, leveraging > the new 64-bit Cocoa support. You can create a quad-arch framework > including the GUI if you wish, such R runs on both PowerPC and Intel > Macs in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode. The r_arch names must be i386, > ppc, x86_64 and ppc64 for the framework to install correctly. > > * Using CRAN Tiger R on Leopard > Apparently there is a problem with the installer. Although our > installer requires my.target.systemVersion.ProductVersion >= '10.4' > and as such should work with Leopard, the Apple installer apparently > breaks this. This is under investigation. Current work-around is to > install R parts separately from the "Packages" directory of the R image. > > Building packages from *sources* reportedly breaks due to some issue > with Xcode. I can't test this with the release, but a hotfix could be > adding -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 to linker flags either to PKG_LIBS > or /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/i386/Makeconf. > (untested) > > Binary packages are fine, so if you can, use CRAN binaries instead. > > I have a working nightly build of R on Leopard that supports both > Tiger and Leopard, but since I'm using the pre-release I cannot make > it public until I get the release license. Once I get it, the nightly > builds should work smoothly on both Tiger and Leopard. > > We have some Leopard-specific aces up our sleeves, there will be a > completely new Leopard build of R with cool new features, > graphics, ... stay tuned ... > > Cheers, > Simon > > > On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Ken Nussear wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I saw a couple of posts mentioning a solution for using R in Leopard. > > Seems like the command line R still works, but the GUI is down for the > > count. Is there an experimental package anywhere? > > > > Thanks > > > > Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
Thanks Simon. Congratulations for all the team members working in R-Mac. Rod. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
