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R and Ventura

3 messages · Kevin E. Thorpe, Calboli Federico (LUKE), Simon Urbanek

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Kevin E. Thorpe
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Hello.

Shortly after Ventura released a saw a few posts on this list about peculiarities (I saw something about Xcode common line tools I believe). I am thinking of upgrading soon from Monterey to Ventura (Intel chip) and wanted to see if there were any pitfalls. I looked at the MAC FAQ on CRAN and in the tools directory (regarding compiler tools) and see no specific mention of Ventura.

I am assuming my current R installation will continue to work. Will I need to re-install XQuartz, or is that only for new R versions? I guess the biggest challenge, for me anyway, is keeping up-to-date with the necessary pieces to compile R packages that need compilation.

I hope my points of concern are clear enough to answer.

Thank you,

Kevin
Calboli Federico (LUKE)
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I am on Ventura and I have no issue.  I do not use XCode, just the command line tools.  Both are available as a stable release install.  I use homebrew for gfortran.

XQuartz should probably be reinstalled, and a new version was made availble early this/last week.

Basically, unless you expect to compile packages from source, everything should work.  If you install from source, or use specific packages that call C or Fortran code other might give better insight.

BW

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Simon Urbanek
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Just a side note: please don't use compilers from Homebrew, they are not compatible and cause issues when combined with other binaries because of different run-times. For R releases please use https://mac.r-project.org/tools/ if you need to compile Fortran packages from sources.

Cheers,
Simon