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"R" software for Mac - Silent installation question

3 messages · David Hernandez Ceballos, Simon Urbanek, Duncan Murdoch

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David Hernandez Ceballos
# 
Dear "R" Foundation rep,

We are trying to install the "R" software for Mac in silent more directly
to the Mac device or creating a package in ManageEngine, whichever option
is chosen, it fails, as follows:

- If we try to download and install the R-4.4.2-arm64.pkg package directly
onto a MacOS
  Silicon device from ManageEngine, the package gives us a ?Installation
failed? error.

- If we try to re-create a package in ManageEngine, using the
R-4.4.2-arm64.pkg file, it
  fails to upload in ManageEngine.

- When installing the R-4.4.2-arm64.pkg  itself from
http://cran.rproject.org/bin/macosx/, the
  application was able to download successfully with no errors. However, it
is not a
  silent installation

- We installed R on an Intel based processor, and the installation was to
totally silent

- How can we get an R software silent installation on a Silicon based
device?

- Is there a different URL we should use to download the correct R software
.pkg for
   Silicon based devices (Silent mode)?
   If so, please share the URL

Please carbon copy dlin at iwu.edu on your reply.

We look forward to your feedback.

Thanks.
Simon Urbanek
# 
David,

I have no idea about "ManageEngine" - you may want to consult the support and documentation of the software you use. On macOS Apple Installer packages can be trivially "silently" installed with

installer -pkg R-4.4.2-arm64.pkg -target /

(prefix with sudo if not run as root). Please see Apple documentation on how to install software on macOS. Nothing about this is R-specific.

Cheers,
Simon
Duncan Murdoch
# 
This isn't the address for the R Foundation, but in any case, it would 
have nothing to say about your question.  It's about funding for 
R-related projects, not debugging third party software.

This email list is about community discussions on using the R build on 
MacOS.  So there's a chance that someone here has used ManageEngine and 
will be able to help you, but I haven't ever seen it mentioned before, 
so that might not happen.

In that case I think what you need to do is talk to the support people 
at ManageEngine.  If that doesn't work, they appear to have a number of 
community discussion forums, and those might help.

Another possibility is that you could contact Posit, who sell and 
distribute RStudio.  If you are trying to install it as well as R, then 
they'd have an interest in helping you.

Duncan Murdoch
On 2025-02-27 3:36 p.m., David Hernandez Ceballos wrote: