R2.10 vs OSX 10.4.11
Sorry if my shorthand (common enough among business software devs, of which I am not one) is misleading. I simply meant 'the latest release of R2.10' when I wrote 2.10x. In any case, 2.10 is working fine on my 10.5.8 OS at home, but the help window was not working on 10.4.11 at work. I will post as much detail as I can acquire in the next day or two. Given that R wasn't crashing, I may not have much to offer other than a list of which packages' help pages show up and which don't. Carl
Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Jan 12, 2010, at 17:51 , Carl Witthoft wrote:
Hi, Can someone let me know what should work and what is known not to work with the latest R2.10x when installed on Tiger (10.4.11)?
No, there is no "R2.10x".
I did a quick tryout and found that the ? command brings up a blank help window. The help.start() (I think that's the command) brings up a R-help window in my web browser, but only some items' help pages show up there. I'm happy to do some testing or debug work, but just don't want to beat myself up against known walls. To answer the obvious: I'm lucky still to have a Mac at work at all, so the chances of IT getting me a Leopard upgrade disc are zero or less.
R 2.10.1 was released for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and is the last release. There is no functional difference between the Leopard and Tiger release (other than the presence/absence of certain architectures), so upgrading the OS makes no difference in usability (for now -- there is likely to be no R 2.11.0 binary for Tiger anymore). If you have any issues, please make sure you're using R 2.10.1 and you may properly report them. Cheers, Simon