Running R on Mac OS10.9.3 [cf. Best installation approach of R on Mavericks]
On 22/05/2014 13:23, Tim Dickinson wrote:
Hi--- I am also setting up a new OS10.9 (Mavericks) machine and installed the corresponding build of R 3.1.0 only to discover that the Package Manager doesn't work. Without uninstalling anything I then tried installing the Snow Leopard version and still get the same error message pasted below: "'.find.package' is defunct." I think this is the problem referred to on list by Brian Ripley: "However, the coverage for the Mavericks binary packages on CRAN is still not as good as for Snow Leopard, and if you primarily use binary packages we recommend the Snow Leopard CRAN binary. The benefits of the Mavericks build come when installing packages from sources." I'm not very good at complicated installs, so I would be grateful for advice how to recover from this and get a functioning copy of the Snow Leopard version installed on my machine.
That is not so: it is a known bug in R.app and so present in both builds (unless they have been updated since I last tried). Update R.app (or install an R-patched build) from http://r.research.att.com/. And how to uninstall and install are in the manual, so we will not write out here. Specifically http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-OS-X .
Many thanks, ---TAD.
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Error: '.find.package' is defunct.
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