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

[Simon Urbanek]

Ben,

On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Ben Madin wrote:

> Simon,
> 
> I'd like to give this a test, but I can't afford to loose the use of my current installation.

It's way to late - R 2.13.0 is already released so you may as well forget it all and install the new version ;).


> 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?
> 

No, Apple's installer keeps track of files installed by the same product and will upgrade it - i.e. remove files that are not in the new version. Unfortunately AFAIK the Installer has no provision to change that behavior (there is a reason for that since that would make it much harder to keep track which files were installed by which package and which version ...).


> 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?),

There is no "snow leopard" version.


> 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? 
> 

The pkgutil just tells the system to forget about the installed R framework so it won't know about it when upgrading and thus it won't delete its files. It doesn't install anything.


> 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.
> 

As I said, you're way too late anyway, but thanks for the thought.

Cheers,
Simon


> 
> 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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