[R-SIG-Mac] Leopard support in R-details

[Rod]

On 10/30/07, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> Current status of R and Leopard:
>
> I don't have the release version of Leopard yet (waiting for the
> DVD...), so the information below is based on tests using the latest
> seed and user responses (see the list) in the last few days.
>
> * Building R
> This was our priority and we have smoothed all the wrinkles as far as
> I can see. Building current R from sources on Leopard works just
> fine. You can build both R and the GUI in 32 and 64-bit, leveraging
> the new 64-bit Cocoa support. You can create a quad-arch framework
> including the GUI if you wish, such R runs on both PowerPC and Intel
> Macs in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode. The r_arch names must be i386,
> ppc, x86_64 and ppc64 for the framework to install correctly.
>
> * Using CRAN Tiger R on Leopard
> Apparently there is a problem with the installer. Although our
> installer requires my.target.systemVersion.ProductVersion >= '10.4'
> and as such should work with Leopard, the Apple installer apparently
> breaks this. This is under investigation. Current work-around is to
> install R parts separately from the "Packages" directory of the R image.
>
> Building packages from *sources* reportedly breaks due to some issue
> with Xcode. I can't test this with the release, but a hotfix could be
> adding -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 to linker flags either to PKG_LIBS
> or /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/etc/i386/Makeconf.
> (untested)
>
> Binary packages are fine, so if you can, use CRAN binaries instead.
>
> I have a working nightly build of R on Leopard that supports both
> Tiger and Leopard, but since I'm using the pre-release I cannot make
> it public until I get the release license. Once I get it, the nightly
> builds should work smoothly on both Tiger and Leopard.
>
> We have some Leopard-specific aces up our sleeves, there will be a
> completely new Leopard build of R with cool new features,
> graphics, ... stay tuned ...
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Ken Nussear wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I saw a couple of posts mentioning a solution for using R in Leopard.
> > Seems like the command line R still works, but the GUI is down for the
> > count. Is there an experimental package anywhere?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ken
> >
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Thanks Simon. Congratulations for all  the team members working in R-Mac.

Rod.