R 2.7.2 for Mac OS X released

Dear  Jari & Simon

Thanx a lot for your very prompt answers. So if I get you correctly,
there is no way
to install R 2.7.2 on Mac OS 10.3.9.

I'll try to uptgrade to 10.4 then, and hope that R-2.7.2 is
going to work.

Cheers, Anastassia





2008/9/22 Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>:

Anastassia,

On Sep 20, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Anastassia Scheidegger wrote:

Dear Simon

For some reason I cannto install R-2.7.2 on my Mac (Mac OS 10.3.9) and

unfortunately we don't support 10.3 (Panther) anymore. It is way too old
(almost 5 years now) and with the introduction of Intel Macs the newer
systems diverged too much such that it is not possible to use the same code
on new systems and Panther. Therefore you'll have to upgrade at least to
10.4 to use R binaries (it's faster so if you have a G4 it's a good idea to
do so).

Alternatively you can compile R yourself (which is what Stephen is reporting
about here), but R starting with 2.7 Aqua/Quartz is no longer supported on
10.3 even in the sources, so you can only use the X11 interface. Also you'll
need to compile packages from sources (use type='source' in
install.packages).

Finally, the last R binary supporting OS X 10.3 was R-2.2.1 which is still
available from CRAN. It is very old, so it will lack many new features and
bugfixes.

I cannot find
installations for R-2.7.1 either.

See the "old" directory on the CRAN page.

Cheers,
Simon

The explanations do not help me. I need the programme for the statistic
course
at Uni Z?rich.

Hope you can help me!

Thanks a lot and best wishes

Anastassia Scheidegger