[R-SIG-Mac] R 32-bit suddenly the default on Mountain Lion 10.8.2?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Simon is pretty much off-line, which is why I replied.


Thank you for doing so.


> I would simply set the R->R64 symlink as the installer would have done in SL and Lion.  The things will work as you expected.


Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Murphy's Law would kick in at some point and I would forget to use 'R64'. :-)

Thanks again,

Marc


> Because I have so many flavours of R installed, I make my own links (in ~/bin, which is on my path).
> 
> On 13/11/2012 20:58, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 13-11-2012, at 21:07, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 13 Nov 2012, at 19:59, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Marc,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Start with 'which R', or run /usr/bin/R explicitly.
>>>> 
>>>> $ which R
>>>> /usr/bin/R
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> That should be a symlink to
>>>>> 
>>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
>>>> 
>>>> it does:
>>>> 
>>>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/R
>>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  47 28 Oct 10:47 /usr/bin/R@ -> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> and that should be a symlink,
>>>> 
>>>> it's not:
>>>> 
>>>> $ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
>>>> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin  8775 26 Oct 17:22 /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R*
>>>> 
>>>> $ ls /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R*
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R*       /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rd2pdf*
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R32*     /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rdconv*
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R64*     /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rdiff*
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/REMOVE*  /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rprof*
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rcmd*    /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rscript*
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> BW
>>>> 
>>>> F
>>> 
>>> The postflight script tests for 10.6 and 10.7 but not for 10.8.
>>> The relevant  lines are
>>> 
>>> # some jobs needed specifically on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion)
>>> if uname -r | grep ^1[01] >/dev/null; then
>>> 
>>> On 10.8.2 uname -r returns 12.2.0 and that doesn't match the grep test.
>>> It would seem that the test should be grep ^1[012] or grep ^1[0-2] .
> 
> Actually, I think it needs to be future-proofed.
> 
>>> 
>>> Berend
>> 
>> 
>> I was just getting around to that section of the script.
>> 
>> I suspect that this is correct and the timing would make sense with my observations here.
>> 
>> Mountain Lion was released on July 25 and I updated shortly thereafter.
>> 
>> The R 2.15.1 OSX binary is dated June 22, before ML was available, so I would have had that installed under Lion, since I would have updated from 2.15.0 soon after the R OSX binary became available. Thus, 64 bit R would have been the default at that time.
>> 
>> R 2.15.2 was of course released after ML, so that is when the change occurred to 32 bit R.
>> 
>> 
>> Under ML as Berend notes above:
>> 
>> ~  uname -r
>> 12.2.0
>> 
>> ~  uname -r | grep ^1[012]
>> 12.2.0
>> 
>> 
>> I had sent an initial e-mail to Simon with the information, but he replied from his iPhone that he is away for a couple of weeks sans computer.
>> 
>> In the mean time, I will get in the habit of using 'R64' from the CLI and in ESS.
>> 
>> If there is anything else that is needed, let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks all!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Marc