3 messages · Hemant Ishwaran, David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D., Brian Ripley
Does anyone know if R will install and run properly on the soon to be released Tiger operating system (Mac OS X 10.4)? There must be several Mac users out there (like myself) who will be considering the upgrade.
Hemant Ishwaran Staff, Dept of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Adjunct Professor, Dept of Statistics, Case University http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/Resume/Pages/Ishwaran/ishwaran.html
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No one _can_ know. Mac OS 10.4 is unreleased, and things can easily break before release. It is working on pre-releases. One problem is that Mac OS 10.4 (don't think you need two tens) will use gcc 4.0.0, which is also unreleased and its release candidates have problems compiling R (see the R-admin manual for R 2.1.0), including on Mac OS 10.4: there are also questions about how `properly' it runs R. The biggest problem we found in gcc 4.0.0 has been fixed within the last week, and it is unclear if this fix will make Mac OS 10.4. The R Mac OS X maintainers are working hard (thank you Stefano and Simon) on this and I expect them to succeed, but quite possibly by using patched tools or non-standard options (such as using a static Fortran runtime). Watch this space (or R-sig-mac if it needs to be technical).
Does anyone know if R will install and run properly on the soon to be released Tiger operating system (Mac OS X 10.4)? There must be several Mac users out there (like myself) who will be considering the upgrade.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595