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

[stephen sefick]

it will work, but you will have to build it from source, which took me
all day yesterday.  I don't know what I am doing, admittedly.  It is
easier to use the binaries if you can afford the upgrade.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Anastassia Scheidegger
<anastassia.scheidegger at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear  Jari & Simon
>
> Thanx a lot for your very prompt answers. So if I get you correctly,
> there is no way
> to install R 2.7.2 on Mac OS 10.3.9.
>
> I'll try to uptgrade to 10.4 then, and hope that R-2.7.2 is
> going to work.
>
> Cheers, Anastassia
>
>
>
>
>
> 2008/9/22 Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>:
>> 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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-- 
Stephen Sefick
Research Scientist
Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy

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annoying little problems of being mammals.

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