[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
R 3.0.0 is due to be released on Apr 3, and is now in beta. Simon is travelling but before he left put up a binary distribution at http://r.research.att.com/snowleopard/R-3.0-branch/R-3.0-branch-snowleopard-signed.pkg . A high proportion of CRAN is available as binary packages, and we will

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
I have heard rumors of GCC 4.7.2, has this been abandoned? Kasper On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: R 3.0.0 is due to be released on Apr 3, and is now in beta. Simon is travelling but before he left put up a binary distribution at

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/03/2013 14:14, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: I have heard rumors of GCC 4.7.2, has this been abandoned? At least for 3.0.0. It did not work well enough. A more likely move is to clang. Clearly that has a future whereas Apple's port of gcc does not. However, R package writers seem

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 20/03/2013 14:14, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: I have heard rumors of GCC 4.7.2, has this been abandoned? At least for 3.0.0. It did not work well enough. A more likely move is to clang. Clearly that has a

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/03/2013 14:38, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 20/03/2013 14:14, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: I have heard rumors of GCC 4.7.2, has this been abandoned? At least for 3.0.0. It did not work well enough. A

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Marc Schwartz
Prof Ripley, A quick note to indicate that it appears that the primary 'tests' directory, which contains the code and related files for running tools::testInstalledBasic() is not present in the current OSX binary package for 3.0.0 beta

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Prof Ripley, I highly appreciated the clarifications in this thread. I am sure I am not the only one. Good luck with finding a new compiler; I am happy to provide whatever help I can. Best, Kasper On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@me.com wrote: Prof Ripley, A