Apple has been popping an offer for a free upgrade to Mavericks. (I currently have OS X Lion10.7.5 on an 8GB MacBook Air). Other than this offer from Apple, I have no dissatisfaction with the Mac for my use pattern. There has been much comment on this list about the difficulties of compiling R with Mac. I am not planning to compile R. Are there any remaining issues with using R on the Mac that should make we want to not upgrade? Or is Mavericks now stable enough that upgrading would make sense. Thanks Rich
upgrade to Mavericks
4 messages · Richard M. Heiberger, John Fox, Tom Hopper +1 more
Dear Rich, Unless there's been some change, there is a potential issue using tcltk because of Mavericks's more aggressive power-saving, which may cause your Mac to go into "nap" mode when the R.app window isn't visible. There are a couple of ways to get around this problem -- see the Rcmdr installation notes for Mac OS X at <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html> -- and it shouldn't prevent you from using Mavericks. I hope this helps, John
-----Original Message----- From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r- project.org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Heiberger Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:54 AM To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] upgrade to Mavericks Apple has been popping an offer for a free upgrade to Mavericks. (I currently have OS X Lion10.7.5 on an 8GB MacBook Air). Other than this offer from Apple, I have no dissatisfaction with the Mac for my use pattern. There has been much comment on this list about the difficulties of compiling R with Mac. I am not planning to compile R. Are there any remaining issues with using R on the Mac that should make we want to not upgrade? Or is Mavericks now stable enough that upgrading would make sense. Thanks Rich
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On 28 Mar 2014, at 15:54 , Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
Apple has been popping an offer for a free upgrade to Mavericks. (I currently have OS X Lion10.7.5 on an 8GB MacBook Air). Other than this offer from Apple, I have no dissatisfaction with the Mac for my use pattern. There has been much comment on this list about the difficulties of compiling R with Mac. I am not planning to compile R. Are there any remaining issues with using R on the Mac that should make we want to not upgrade? Or is Mavericks now stable enough that upgrading would make sense.
If I hadn't already done it, I'd wait until they get the Mail app sorted out. There are issues that are quite annoying if you're dealing with Exchange and Gmail backends. There's said to be improvements in 10.9.3, which has been right around the corner for more than a month. (Before that, it was in 10.9.2 beta with a release right around the corner, but then there was the emergency security fix.)
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