R 4.3.1 fails on Mac OS X Sonoma

Hello.

I am wondering if this is just an issue on M1/2 chips or does it also affect Intel?

I usually hold off upgrading until the first or second patch, but I feel I should warn students in my class.

Kevin

On Oct 3, 2023, at 12:14 PM, William R Revelle <revelle at northwestern.edu> wrote:

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It turns out that is not just the graphics window that the focus problem, it is all windows.  That is, opening the help window takes focus away from the console and help needs to be closed before the console window will be active.  The install package window has the same problem.

For each case, closing the extra window restores console functioning.

I report this just so Simon can see the report.

I remain in awe of the work of Simon in getting the Mac version to work so well.

I am running

R version 4.3.1 Patched (2023-09-30 r85239)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.0

Bill

On Oct 1, 2023, at 12:13?PM, Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:

I hear you!  It is not just R either.  I know you mentioned R-studio.
But there are lots of other things R-related like emacs.  I had the
hardest time with emacs for Catalina and Big sur.  I?m not sure
but I think Monterrey was better.  However, all of those issues
finally went away with Ventura.  This makes me extremely hesitant for Sonoma
since I am finally happy now.  So long story short: Apple gets there,
but it can take years sometimes.  The new hardware like ARM (and
the titanium iPhone!) look so cool it can be very tempting to go
bleeding-edge. I learned my lesson when Ventura first came out.
R was not ready and neither were lots of tools that we use here
at work.  Good luck
--
Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His
Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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Date: Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 12:01 PM
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