[R-SIG-Mac] R2.10 vs OSX 10.4.11

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jan 12, 2010, at 17:51 , Carl Witthoft wrote:

> Hi,
> Can someone let me know what should work and what is known not to  
> work with the latest R2.10x when installed on Tiger (10.4.11)?

No, there is no "R2.10x".


>  I did a quick tryout and found that the ? command brings up a blank  
> help window.  The help.start() (I think that's the command) brings  
> up a R-help window in my web browser, but only some items' help  
> pages show up there.
>
> I'm happy to do some testing or debug work, but just don't want to  
> beat myself up against known walls.
>
> To answer the obvious:  I'm lucky still to have a Mac at work at  
> all, so the chances of IT getting me a Leopard upgrade disc are zero  
> or less.
>

R 2.10.1 was released for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and is the last release.  
There is no functional difference between the Leopard and Tiger  
release (other than the presence/absence of certain architectures), so  
upgrading the OS makes no difference in usability (for now -- there is  
likely to be no R 2.11.0 binary for Tiger anymore).

If you have any issues, please make sure you're using R 2.10.1 and you  
may properly report them.

Cheers,
Simon