Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Robust compiler toolchain for R-devel

2020-02-18 Thread Balamuta, James Joseph
All, First, macos-rtools isn't an officially sanctioned R project installer. I created it in the Summer of 2017 to quickly get students and collaborators setup with minimal effort under a configuration that mirrored CRAN. This was primarily due to the lack of official installer packages and stu

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Robust compiler toolchain for R-devel

2020-02-18 Thread peter dalgaard
Simon has recently brought up (on R-core) the related issue of what to use as the target platform for 4.0.0. I don't know whether he is ready to take his deliberations to a wider audience at this point. -pd > On 18 Feb 2020, at 09:14 , Patrick Schratz wrote: > > Hi, > > I am experimenting

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Robust compiler toolchain for R-devel

2020-02-18 Thread Patrick Schratz
Matthias, Thanks for your reply. My questions was not about how to install gcc on macOS - this is very simple using homebrew (brew install gcc). Also I am familiar with the xcode basics and so on. Homebrew is the de-facto standard package manager on macOS - mentioning it again explicitly becau

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Robust compiler toolchain for R-devel

2020-02-18 Thread Matthias Krawutschke
Hey Patrick, i had the same issue /problem on my MAC. First of all you need from Apple XCODE the Command-Line. I find here a good instruction to do that: https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/HUGG/GNU+compiler+install+on+Mac+OS+X But, I´m not sure if you can compile the GNU-C 9.x - Version. Try it a

[R-SIG-Mac] Robust compiler toolchain for R-devel

2020-02-18 Thread Patrick Schratz
Hi, I am experimenting since some days to find the “best” compiler toolchain for R-devel to get R-devel package source installs on the new macOS Github Actions runners work in a somewhat stable way. I am also on macOS locally which I use for testing as well. I am aware of https://github.com/rma