[R] R version 2.14.2 installation on mac OS X Yosemite

[peter dalgaard]

On 07 Nov 2014, at 01:00 , Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

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> On 06.11.2014 20:20, Dalela, Deepansh wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I noticed your email on the R support page. I am currently using SPSS 21 for mac, and need to install a macro plug-in which requires me o install R 2.14 (I already have R 3.0). When i download the R 2.14 package from the CRAN website, and try to install it on my Macintosh HD, it gives me an error message : “ R 2.14.2 for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (Leopard build) can’t be installed on this disk. Leopard build of R requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher. Use Tiger build (available from CRAN) for older systems.”
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>> I dont understand this, since I have OS X Yosemite on my mac. I tried installing 2.14.0, but got the exact same error message.
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>> Would appreciate your help greatly.
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> Such old versions of R are not supported, particularly not on more recent OS.
> If you need help, ask the company for support that tells you to install an obsolete version of R.
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> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 

As Uwe says, if SPSS insists that you use outdated versions of R, SPSS should take on the maintenance rather than expect an academic/volunteer group to do it for them.  

However, Yosemite has the alphabetical-sort problem of making version 10.10 come after 10.9 and not between 10.1 and 10.2 and I wonder if that is what is biting the 2.14.2 installer. There is no way that we'll be rebuilding old packages, but in other contexts, people have gotten around the problem by temporarily setting the version of Yosemite to 10.9.



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