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

[Anastassia Scheidegger]

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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