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

[Carl Witthoft]

Sorry if my shorthand (common enough among business software devs, of 
which I am not one) is misleading.  I simply meant 'the latest release 
of R2.10' when I wrote 2.10x.

In any case,  2.10 is working fine on my 10.5.8 OS at home, but the help 
window was not working on 10.4.11 at work.  I will post as much detail 
as I can acquire in the next day or two.  Given that R wasn't crashing, 
I may not have much to offer other than a list of which packages' help 
pages show up and which don't.

Carl

Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 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
> 
>