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

[Simon Urbanek]

Carl,

On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote:

> 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.
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> In any case,  2.10

Argh - please do include the *real* version! It *does* make a huge difference! For example 2.10.0 has some help-related bugs (and others ;)) that were fixed in 2.10.1 so it is important to distinguish exactly which version you have.


> is working fine on my 10.5.8 OS at home, but the help window was not working on 10.4.11 at work.

The new help system uses an integrated web server so firewall settings may get in your way there. I'm saying this only because you mentioned 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.
> 

A reproducible example is sufficient ... However, as I said there is no difference in the R help system between 10.4 and 10.5 so the reason is likely somewhere else (e.g. failure to re-install packages after an R upgrade).

Cheers,
Simon



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> 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
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