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R 2.7.2 for Mac OS X released

4 messages · Anastassia Scheidegger, Simon Urbanek, stephen sefick

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Dear Simon

For some reason I cannto install R-2.7.2 on my Mac (Mac OS 10.3.9) and
I cannot find
installations for R-2.7.1 either.

The explanations do not help me. I need the programme for the statistic course
at Uni Z?rich.

Hope you can help me!

Thanks a lot and best wishes

Anastassia Scheidegger
1 day later
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Anastassia,
On Sep 20, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Anastassia Scheidegger wrote:

            
unfortunately we don't support 10.3 (Panther) anymore. It is way too  
old (almost 5 years now) and with the introduction of Intel Macs the  
newer systems diverged too much such that it is not possible to use  
the same code on new systems and Panther. Therefore you'll have to  
upgrade at least to 10.4 to use R binaries (it's faster so if you have  
a G4 it's a good idea to do so).

Alternatively you can compile R yourself (which is what Stephen is  
reporting about here), but R starting with 2.7 Aqua/Quartz is no  
longer supported on 10.3 even in the sources, so you can only use the  
X11 interface. Also you'll need to compile packages from sources (use  
type='source' in install.packages).

Finally, the last R binary supporting OS X 10.3 was R-2.2.1 which is  
still available from CRAN. It is very old, so it will lack many new  
features and bugfixes.
See the "old" directory on the CRAN page.

Cheers,
Simon
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Dear  Jari & Simon

Thanx a lot for your very prompt answers. So if I get you correctly,
there is no way
to install R 2.7.2 on Mac OS 10.3.9.

I'll try to uptgrade to 10.4 then, and hope that R-2.7.2 is
going to work.

Cheers, Anastassia





2008/9/22 Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>:
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it will work, but you will have to build it from source, which took me
all day yesterday.  I don't know what I am doing, admittedly.  It is
easier to use the binaries if you can afford the upgrade.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Anastassia Scheidegger
<anastassia.scheidegger at googlemail.com> wrote: