[Rd] OSX Yosemite (10.10): Are package binaries the same as for OSX Mavericks (10.9)?

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> To: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:21:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] OSX Yosemite (10.10): Are package binaries the same as for OSX Mavericks (10.9)?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
> > To: "R-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:16:10 AM
> > Subject: [Rd] OSX Yosemite (10.10): Are package binaries the same
> > as for OSX Mavericks (10.9)?
> > 
> > I'm trying to help someone to troubleshoot possible OSX Yosemite
> > issues, but I've only got access to OSX (< 10.9) so I cannot check
> > myself.
> > 
> > When building/installing binary R packages, there are different
> > binaries depending on OSX version.  For instance, CRAN provides
> > different binaries for 'OS X Snow Leopard' and 'OS X Mavericks',
> > e.g.
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/matrixStats/index.html.
> > 
> > What about the new OSX Yosemite?  From
> > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Yosemite
> > it
> > looks like its binaries are the same/compatible with those of 'OS X
> > Mavericks' - can someone please confirm this?  Another way to put
> > it,
> > if a repository provides OSX Mavericks binaries will an OSX
> > Yosemite
> > user install these or we s/he fall back to installing from source?
> > 
> 
> Yes, a Yosemite user will by default be installing packages built on
> Mavericks using the Mavericks build of R, and they should work.
> 

Provided of course that that Yosemite user is using the Mavericks build of R. They could also be using the Snow Leopard build of R which should also work, and would be installing by default packages build on Snow Leopard using the Snow Leopard build of R.

Dan


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> > Thanks
> > 
> > Henrik
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