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OT: Snow Leopard and Application Compatibility

7 messages · Marc Schwartz, Brian Ripley, Simon Urbanek +3 more

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Marc Schwartz
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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/


All,

Above is the link to a web site that is being updated with information  
on potential application compatibility issues with Snow Leopard (SL).  
Curiously, R is listed there...with an "Unknown Status".

Our copy of SL should arrive tomorrow.

Before updating, you should review this list to see if there are any  
potential issues with programs that you are using and SL.

If there are, you may have to wait to upgrade the OS until an  
application is updated to be compatible. I have to wait until PGP (my  
whole disk encryption program) is updated, which supposedly will be  
soon according to their tech support folks.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz
Brian Ripley
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There are list members with access to the developer pre-release 
'seeds', and I have seen 'Mac OS X 10.6' in one report (with a 
corresponding sessionInfo() output). So it seems very likely there is 
no problem with R, and most likely none with with R.app.

(We are deferring upgrading until our sysadmins are back from holiday 
absences.)
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Marc Schwartz wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Simon Urbanek
    

    

      
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On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:52 , Marc Schwartz wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Someone apparently didn't even try - of course R is fully compatible  
with SL (and this was mentioned even here on the list). As for source  
compilation the only possible issue is that X11 headers/libs may have  
to be specified at configure time.

Apple was kind to provide us with a seed so we can take advantage of  
the new technologies in SL.

Cheers,
Simon

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Jan de Leeuw
    

    

      
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I have been using SL for over a year. Compiling and running a x86-84  
bit R
can be done without problems. There are about 600 packages in my R  
install,
all build and run without problems. I don't know about R.app, though.  
I do
find that R on SL, with suitable optimization flags, feels quite a bit  
faster.

        
On Aug 27, 2009, at 05:20 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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Statistics;
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      Steve Lianoglou
    

    

      
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Hi,

        
On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Would you mind sharing what optimization flags those might be? :-)

In one of your previous posts you mention that you configure R for  
source compilation via this command:

configure --with-aqua --with-blas='\''-framework vecLib'\'' --with- 
lapack --prefix=/usr/local/R --disable-R-framework --with-readline -- 
with-cairo --enable-memory-profiling --enable-R-shlib --x-includes=/ 
usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --build=x86_64-apple- 
darwin10 --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=x86_64-apple-darwin10

I'm not sure I see any optimization flags there (aside from specifying  
darwin10 (for snow leopard, I reckon?)), but is all that you mean?

Thanks,
-steve

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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      Jan de Leeuw
    

    

      
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"-m64 -O3 -fopenmp -mtune=native" for C and C++ and FORTRAN

yes, SL is darwin 10

deleeuw at cuddyvalley:~/ > uname -a
Darwin cuddyvalley.org 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31  
22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

note: no ppc or i386 in the R build. if i buy a book i don't
buy additional copies in finnish and urdu, especially since those
are languages i can't read.

        
On Aug 27, 2009, at 08:50 , Steve Lianoglou wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        
===
Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of  
Statistics;
Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES);
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software;
US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
.mac: jdeleeuw ++++++  aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw
homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org
   
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai
                    http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      John Maindonald
    

    

      
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R (version 2.9.2) is now listed as OK.

John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.

        
On 27/08/2009, at 9:52 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: