[Bioc-devel] R 3.3 for snow leopard

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> To: "Leonardo Collado Torres" <lcollado at jhu.edu>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 12:32:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] R 3.3 for snow leopard
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> > To: "Leonardo Collado Torres" <lcollado at jhu.edu>
> > Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 12:47:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] R 3.3 for snow leopard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Leonardo Collado Torres" <lcollado at jhu.edu>
> > > To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> > > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 12:43:12 PM
> > > Subject: [Bioc-devel] R 3.3 for snow leopard
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This is not BioC related, but should hopefully be quick.
> > > 
> > > According to
> > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-OS-X
> > > "there may be a separate installer package,
> > > R-3.3.0-snowleopard.pkg".
> > > I'm
> > > not seeing any at http://r.research.att.com/. Has anyone heard if
> > > they'll
> > > keep supporting snowleopard?
> > > 
> > 
> > Don't draw any conclusions from this; I think it just isn't
> > available
> > yet. Note that R-3.2.0 is not yet available for either Mac
> > platform.
> 
> 
> BTW, I had an exchange with Simon Urbanek and he said that indeed
> they plan to drop support for Snow Leopard with the release of
> R-3.3.0 in a year's time.
> 
> 3.2.0 is still supported, although there is still not an official
> 3.2.0 binary for Snow Leopard on CRAN (I've asked for clarification
> on this); there is a binary of R-3.2.0-patched on
> http://r.research.att.com/ .
> 

BTW (again), I should mention that BioC devel (3.2) uses R-3.2, so for package development you don't yet want to move to R-3.3.0. That should give you six more months to shop for new hardware.

Dan



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