[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.7.2 for Mac OS X released

[Simon Urbanek]

Anastassia,

On Sep 20, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Anastassia Scheidegger wrote:

> Dear Simon
>
> For some reason I cannto install R-2.7.2 on my Mac (Mac OS 10.3.9) and

unfortunately we don't support 10.3 (Panther) anymore. It is way too  
old (almost 5 years now) and with the introduction of Intel Macs the  
newer systems diverged too much such that it is not possible to use  
the same code on new systems and Panther. Therefore you'll have to  
upgrade at least to 10.4 to use R binaries (it's faster so if you have  
a G4 it's a good idea to do so).

Alternatively you can compile R yourself (which is what Stephen is  
reporting about here), but R starting with 2.7 Aqua/Quartz is no  
longer supported on 10.3 even in the sources, so you can only use the  
X11 interface. Also you'll need to compile packages from sources (use  
type='source' in install.packages).

Finally, the last R binary supporting OS X 10.3 was R-2.2.1 which is  
still available from CRAN. It is very old, so it will lack many new  
features and bugfixes.


> I cannot find
> installations for R-2.7.1 either.
>

See the "old" directory on the CRAN page.

Cheers,
Simon


> The explanations do not help me. I need the programme for the  
> statistic course
> at Uni Zürich.
>
> Hope you can help me!
>
> Thanks a lot and best wishes
>
> Anastassia Scheidegger
>
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