Re: [R-SIG-Mac] java version, perhaps related to ggplot2

> On May 24, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: > > You need to configure R to match your Java using R CMD javareconf. > > The CRAN machine uses JDK 1.9 which was the default until Java 10 was > released recently. If you use something else, you have to

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Greetings and Salutations Simon, I appreciate the feedback at long last; but, I fear that a majority of this is scaremongering at this stage. These installers, clang4 and the _unofficial_ macos rtools, have operated since their inception without incident since almost a year ago. Their sources

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Greetings and Salutations Nigel, You’re welcome! Just a word of advice regarding 3.4.x and 3.5.x, make sure the installer includes packages from the desired version. ALTREP was added in 3.5.x and that has caused issues with users who opt to copy over the previous installation of r binaries to

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

Just for posterity - please note that the installer referenced below is potentially unsafe and dangerous, because it does NOT actually package the binary but rather contains just an arbitrary shell script and thus you cannot be sure that you get the official binaries or something malicious

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] java version, perhaps related to ggplot2

You need to configure R to match your Java using R CMD javareconf. The CRAN machine uses JDK 1.9 which was the default until Java 10 was released recently. If you use something else, you have to configure R accordingly. Also I strongly recommend using rJava 0.9-10 since it works around some

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Generating R .pkg file for Mac Distribution

James, Thank you for the wonderful response and for making your packaging code available (and producing this!). Very much appreciated. I wound up taking an approach where I just modified the CRAN R installer to include a few more packages (specifically all I had installed). I couldn't find