Call to test current R 2.13.0 beta and RCs - especially new GUI features!
Ben,
On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Ben Madin wrote:
Simon, I'd like to give this a test, but I can't afford to loose the use of my current installation.
It's way to late - R 2.13.0 is already released so you may as well forget it all and install the new version ;).
The installer says: Requirements: - Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Note: By default the installer upgrades previous Leopard build of R if present. If you want to keep the previous Leopard build, use pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.Leopard.fw.pkg I thought it would just be installed in the Versions directory of the R.framework and the symlink changed, but maybe this is not so?
No, Apple's installer keeps track of files installed by the same product and will upgrade it - i.e. remove files that are not in the new version. Unfortunately AFAIK the Installer has no provision to change that behavior (there is a reason for that since that would make it much harder to keep track which files were installed by which package and which version ...).
I'm on 10.6.6 - I'm not sure if that means that it will replace any leopard versions that exist (but not snow leopard?),
There is no "snow leopard" version.
of if I need to use the "pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.Leopard.fw.pkg" command. Not knowing anything about this, do I just run that command in terminal in my home directory, or does it need to be done in the R directory. Will it then go ahead and install, or do I run it and then use the installer? Will it mean I can use RSwitch?
The pkgutil just tells the system to forget about the installed R framework so it won't know about it when upgrading and thus it won't delete its files. It doesn't install anything.
Sorry about the lack of adventurousness, but I really can't afford to loose my current stable install as I'm "on-demand" to produce and modify analyses.
As I said, you're way too late anyway, but thanks for the thought. Cheers, Simon
On 06/04/2011, at 6:19 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
It's the time of the year to test the new upcoming R release, but this time I'd like to ask as many users as possible to give the new R a spin, because there are many new features in the Mac GUI which increases the likelihood of bugs. It can be downloaded, as usual, from http://r.research.att.com/ and for those of you that like deep links you probably want http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg The new features in R itself can be found in the usual place, but this time the focus is also on the GUI and you can get list of new features in the GUI at https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI/NEWS Essentially the internal editor has been much re-written thanks to Hans-J?rg Bibiko and thus is much faster, more versatile (encoding selection, better auto-competion) and features shortcuts you know from Xcode (like <Ctrl><H> for help on the current function). Other parts have been improved as well, help pages are now searchable and so is the history, you can use <Cmd><Enter> in most web views and other lists like Data Manager can be sorted. Finally, for your safety document auto-save feature has been added such that open documents are automatically restored even in the [unlikely ;)] case of an R crash. So, please, consider testing the release candidates in the next week or two and report any bugs you should find. This is true both for R itself and the R.app GUI. Thanks, Simon
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