[R-SIG-Mac] Easiest way to install R 2.12.0 on a Mac

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:56 AM, huang min wrote:

> Hi, Simon,
> 
> When can the binary version of R2.12.0 for MAC be available? The windows version are already out.
> 

You can always get the latest R version from http://r.research.att.com

Also if you are impatient you can grab
http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/R-2.12.0.pkg 
which is the nightly build of the release. In most cases that becomes the release unless there is a last-minute issue.

The CRAN will likely have the official release within a day or so.

Cheers,
Simon



> Huang
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Richard R. Liu wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Up to now I've reinstalled all packages when upgrading R.  Is there an easier
> > way.  I'm wondering whether just copying the contents of ~/Library/R/2.11 to
> > ~/Library/R/2.12 followed by updating in Packages & Date > Package Installer >
> > Update All in the R Console (R.app) would do the trick.
> >
> 
> The whole point of using a version-dependent directories is exactly to prevent the chaos resulting from what you suggest. If you installed package at the system level then you can upgrade using the GUI:
> Package Installer -> Get List -> Select Packages from R 2.11 (in the search menu) -> Install Selected
> 
> If you use user-local path like you mentioned above, you can always simply use
> install.packages(.packages(TRUE,"~/Library/R/2.11/library"))
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
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