[R-SIG-Mac] Call to test current R 2.13.0 beta and RCs - especially new GUI features!

[Ben Madin]

Simon,

I'd like to give this a test, but I can't afford to loose the use of my current installation. The installer says:

Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Note: By default the installer upgrades previous Leopard build of R  if present. If you want to keep the previous Leopard build, use
pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.Leopard.fw.pkg

I thought it would just be installed in the Versions directory of the R.framework and the symlink changed, but maybe this is not so?

I'm on 10.6.6 - I'm not sure if that means that it will replace any leopard versions that exist (but not snow leopard?), of if I need to use the  "pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.Leopard.fw.pkg" command. Not knowing anything about this, do I just run that command in terminal in my home directory, or does it need to be done in the R directory. Will it then go ahead and install, or do I run it and then use the installer? Will it mean I can use RSwitch? 

Sorry about the lack of adventurousness, but I really can't afford to loose my current stable install as I'm "on-demand" to produce and modify analyses.

Cheers

Ben

On 06/04/2011, at 6:19 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> It's the time of the year to test the new upcoming R release, but this time I'd like to ask as many users as possible to give the new R a spin, because there are many new features in the Mac GUI which increases the likelihood of bugs. It can be downloaded, as usual, from
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/
> 
> and for those of you that like deep links you probably want
> 
> http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg
> 
> The new features in R itself can be found in the usual place, but this time the focus is also on the GUI and you can get list of new features in the GUI at
> https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI/NEWS
> Essentially the internal editor has been much re-written thanks to Hans-Jörg Bibiko and thus is much faster, more versatile (encoding selection, better auto-competion) and features shortcuts you know from Xcode (like <Ctrl><H> for help on the current function). Other parts have been improved as well, help pages are now searchable and so is the history, you can use <Cmd><Enter> in most web views and other lists like Data Manager can be sorted. Finally, for your safety document auto-save feature has been added such that open documents are automatically restored even in the [unlikely ;)] case of an R crash.
> 
> So, please, consider testing the release candidates in the next week or two and report any bugs you should find. This is true both for R itself and the R.app GUI.
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
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