[R-SIG-Mac] MAC help

[David Winsemius]

On Oct 10, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> David,
> 
> On Oct 10, 2012, at 8:47 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2012, at 5:26 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Lisa Beach wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello to all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to get the R software but I have an old Mac with old software (version 10.4.11).
>>>> I have been to the archive page but I have absolutely no clue what I need to download since there are several options.
>>> 
>>> Or maybe there are no options?
>>> 
>>>> Would someone be able to tell me exactly which file(s) I need to download?
>>> 
>>> Copying from the ATT Research page:
>>> 
>>> "The current build supports only Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or higher. Older versions of OS X are not supported in binary form, but R can be compiled from sources for such legacy OS versions. Last released version for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) was R 2.10.1."
>> 
>> I'm not sure if that statement is correct.
> 
> What part of the statement do you deem incorrect?

I wrote that after being surprised that there were binary versions on the CRAN page I offered the link to. I probably should have said I was not sure what was meant and that my initial interpretation appeared incorrect. If it means 'no further work will be done on problem corrections but the binaries can still be obtained', then that is different from what I originally thought it to  mean, namely that 'anybody wanting to install R 2.10.1 or other legacy systems will need to compile from source.'

-- 
David.


> The above statement says that the current R is not available for old OS X in binary form (which is true, the builds of current R only support 10.5+) and that you will have to use the old R 2.10.1 binary on OS X 10.4+ (which I hope is still true - it was tested at the time), otherwise you'll have to compile it form sources (which may or may not work, we can't tell, admittedly, since we have no such systems to test). All that is true as far as I can tell...
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> There are .dmg files at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/ and I'm pretty sure that is how R version for the Mac are distributed. Why not see if you can get satifaction with:
>> 
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/R-2.10.1.dmg
>> 
>>> 
>>> Also not stated in your description is what CPU you have (PPC vs. x386).
>> 
>> The binary Mac versions were cross-compiled for both architectures.
>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't know how easy it will be to get the required Xcode for 10.4.x software which would definitely be needed to compile R from sources. You will need to do some searching at support.apple.com (or whatever that domain might be.) When I updated to 10.6.8 I was told by the Apple rep that they would soon be discontinuing availability of CD copies of that version. I'm pretty sure you will not be able to get that software from Simon or CRAN. You should probably be checking to see if you can get a working copy of Xcode.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Lisa
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David Winsemius, MD
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