R 2.10.0 beta -- please test!

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

Dear Mac users,

please consider testing R 2.10.0 beta *before* the release. First,  
we have
now an automated installer generator system for Leopard and Snow  
Leopard
(incl. 64-bit R), so it will be useful to test that it works as  
desired and
second there was one very fundamental change in the GUI (not  
necessarily
visible for the user but it makes sure any new debugging/browser  
support in
R is passed into the GUI) so we want to make sure *before* the  
release that
any issues are ironed out -- but we can only do that with your  
feedback.

The beta releases can be downloaded from
http://R.research.att.com/

I'm still having difficulty w/ some of the help features.
Specifically on a fresh start of the R GUI selecting "R Help" from the
Help menu opens up a blank help window and gives the following at the
console:

sh: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/sh/help-links.sh:
No such file or directory
Making packages.html . done

Also, the "magnifying glass" help files on both the R Console and the
R Help windows do not open the desired help pages, they only bring
focus to the help window.

Thanks for making R on the mac a pleasant experience.

Peter

[R.app GUI 1.30 (5508) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]

R version 2.10.0 RC (2009-10-19 r50172)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Thanks,
Simon