R 2.10.0 beta -- please test!
David,
On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:09 , David Winsemius wrote:
I On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Oct 20, 2009, at 15:20 , Peter Cowan wrote:
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
Thanks, fixed.
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, also fixed in the revision 5509.
I installed the earlier RC r50178 and attempted to install package rms with dependencies to the "System Level" using the GUI Package Installer from CRAN. 10 minutes later I am still looking at a spinning rainbow ball. The Stop icon on the Console window is greyed out and not responding. <esc> has no effect.
Can you send me the trace, please?
So, now that I have an R system that won't do an useful work for me, is there an exit set of keystrokes and what is the proper way to gracefully retreat to 2.9.2?
There is no change I'm aware of since 2.9.2 -- if R is not coming back to the GUI due to some internet issues the behavior is the same -- you can't abort it unless you kill it (stop/<Esc> only affects R commands, but installation is done externally so it doesn't react to it). Cheers, Simon
Thanks again for the reports, Simon
Thanks for making R on the mac a pleasant experience.
I echo the thanks despite this glitch, since my overall experience is very positive with the Mac version and I could not get half as much useful work done on alternate systems. -- David David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT