[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0 beta -- please test!

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 15:20 , Peter Cowan wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>> Dear Mac users,
>>
>> please consider testing R 2.10.0 beta *before* the release. First,  
>> we have
>> now an automated installer generator system for Leopard and Snow  
>> Leopard
>> (incl. 64-bit R), so it will be useful to test that it works as  
>> desired and
>> second there was one very fundamental change in the GUI (not  
>> necessarily
>> visible for the user but it makes sure any new debugging/browser  
>> support in
>> R is passed into the GUI) so we want to make sure *before* the  
>> release that
>> any issues are ironed out -- but we can only do that with your  
>> feedback.
>>
>> The beta releases can be downloaded from
>> http://R.research.att.com/
>
> I'm still having difficulty w/ some of the help features.
> Specifically on a fresh start of the R GUI selecting "R Help" from the
> Help menu opens up a blank help window and gives the following at the
> console:
>
> sh: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/sh/help-links.sh:
> No such file or directory
> Making packages.html . done
>

Thanks, fixed.


> Also, the "magnifying glass" help files on both the R Console and the
> R Help windows do not open the desired help pages, they only bring
> focus to the help window.
>

Thanks, also fixed in the revision 5509.

Thanks again for the reports,
Simon


> Thanks for making R on the mac a pleasant experience.
>
> Peter
>
> [R.app GUI 1.30 (5508) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>
> R version 2.10.0 RC (2009-10-19 r50172)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
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