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

Rob Goedman robjgoedman at me.com
Fri Oct 23 00:26:04 CEST 2009


Berend,

Are you running SnowLeopard?

Thanks,
Rob


On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote:

>
> On 19/10/2009, at 14:46, Simon Urbanek 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.
>
>
>
> Running the 32 bit R.app GUI.
>
> I start out with my Home directory as working directory.
> I do a Change Working Directory to:  /Users/berendhasselman/ 
> Documents/Programming/R/NonLinearEq.Test/nleq.test/nslv
>
> Then do an Open Document... (Cmd+O) or a Source File... (Shift+Cmd+O).
> The open file dialog doesn't start in the current working directory   
> but
> in /Users/berendhasselman/Documents/Programming/R/NonLinearEq.Test.
>
> After navigating to the working directory and opening a file, and  
> then doing another open file the open dialog hasn't remembered the  
> previous directory. I have to navigate to the desired directory all  
> over again.
>
> I can't remember if this also happened with R2.9.2. Sorry about that.
>
> Berend
>
> ---------------------------------------
> sessionInfo() gives
>
> R version 2.10.0 RC (2009-10-20 r50178)
> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
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