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helps on upgrading R in Mac OS

2 messages · Mao Jianfeng, Berend Hasselman

Mao Jianfeng
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Dear R-helpers,

I intend to upgrade R in Mac OS with updated R version and updated Mac
OS version.

I think my Mac notebook is produced with Mac x86_64, darwin9.8.0. I
have updated my Mac OS to  Mac OS X version 10.6.5. But, when I
installed R 2.12.1, the "version" function still gave me information
that R is based on old Mac OS. I need to know how can I update R to
let it to fit for the updated Mac OS.

Could you please give me any direction on that? Thanks in advance.
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platform       x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
arch           x86_64
os             darwin9.8.0
system         x86_64, darwin9.8.0
status
major          2
minor          12.1
year           2010
month          12
day            16
svn rev        53855
language       R
version.string R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

Jian-Feng, Mao
Berend Hasselman
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Mao Jianfeng wrote:
This query belongs to the R-SIG-Mac list.
I don't think you should worry too much.
R is reporting the system it was built under.
The version you are using is for Leopard and higher.
Same as what I'm using on 10.6.5.

As far as I can see you are using the correct version for 10.6.5

See ?version for the "Do not use R.version$os to test the platform the code
is running on...."

Berend