Dear Jari & Simon Thanx a lot for your very prompt answers. So if I get you correctly, there is no way to install R 2.7.2 on Mac OS 10.3.9.
I'll try to uptgrade to 10.4 then, and hope that R-2.7.2 is going to work. Cheers, Anastassia 2008/9/22 Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anastassia, > > On Sep 20, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Anastassia Scheidegger wrote: > >> Dear Simon >> >> For some reason I cannto install R-2.7.2 on my Mac (Mac OS 10.3.9) and > > unfortunately we don't support 10.3 (Panther) anymore. It is way too old > (almost 5 years now) and with the introduction of Intel Macs the newer > systems diverged too much such that it is not possible to use the same code > on new systems and Panther. Therefore you'll have to upgrade at least to > 10.4 to use R binaries (it's faster so if you have a G4 it's a good idea to > do so). > > Alternatively you can compile R yourself (which is what Stephen is reporting > about here), but R starting with 2.7 Aqua/Quartz is no longer supported on > 10.3 even in the sources, so you can only use the X11 interface. Also you'll > need to compile packages from sources (use type='source' in > install.packages). > > Finally, the last R binary supporting OS X 10.3 was R-2.2.1 which is still > available from CRAN. It is very old, so it will lack many new features and > bugfixes. > > >> I cannot find >> installations for R-2.7.1 either. >> > > See the "old" directory on the CRAN page. > > Cheers, > Simon > > >> The explanations do not help me. I need the programme for the statistic >> course >> at Uni Zürich. >> >> Hope you can help me! >> >> Thanks a lot and best wishes >> >> Anastassia Scheidegger >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
