OS 10.5.8 Compatibility
On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Francis Smart wrote:
Dear R people, I am running OS 10.5.8 on my PowerBook G4 and unfortunately it will not allow me to upgrade to Snow Leopard, because it does not run an Intel Chip. I have downloaded a version of R
... a version?
and it does not appear to be stable.
That is a bit vague.
I have thought about about installing Linux to ensure a stable build but unfortunately I bought the PowerBook G4 used and I did not come with install disks. The Leopard install disks I do have refuse to run on an non-Intel machine. So if I installed Linux, that would mean that I would have to uninstall OS X and I probably would not be able to reinstall it. So I guess I am wondering if anybody has a build of R that they know is stable on 10.5.8. Also, I am sure there are other potential solutions that I have not thought of.
I currently have R 2.8.0 on a G4 PB running 10.5.7. I don't remember that there was a conscious decision not to upgrade R, I also cannot remember if I had a reason not to go to OSX 10.5.8. Almost all of my R work is on later Macs and the PB now is just for checking PowerPoint presentations for compatibility with OpenOffice.
Any recommendations?
Not sure I know much else to say other than you can get old disk-image versions of the universal 32 bit build here: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/base/
Thank you for your time, Francis -- Francis Smart (202) 540-8108 primary
David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT