[R-SIG-Mac] Is Yosemite now "safe" for most of us?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/12/2014 02:16, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> Yes, the bugs have been well and truly worked out.

Worked around, more precisely.

There are still bugs in Yosemite's handling of environment variables, 
and R >= 3.1.2 has workarounds that resolve some of those.  But they can 
still bite when building R or installing packages.

I have found that

unsetenv FOO
setenv FOO value

resolved the issues I had.  (csh syntax, works in bash too.)

If you upgrade to Yosemite, do ensure that you have read the current 
R-admin manual and re-install the software it recommends.  We have found 
that what needed to be reinstalled varied between nominally identical 
systems ... 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#OS-X .

>
> Hadley
>
> On Thursday, December 25, 2014, Ralph O'Brien <obrienralph at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The missives about running R/Rstudio under Yosemite seem to have died down.
>>
>> For the vast majority of us who are "vanilla" uses of the current versions
>> of R and Rstudio, is Yosemite (10.10.current) now as safe as Mavericks
>> (10.9.current)?
>>
>> I'm hoping a single short response from one of the R-on-Mac leaders will
>> give me (and thousands more) either a green or red light at this point.
>>
>> Thanks for all the great work you do.
>>
>> Ralph O'Brien, PhD
>> Retired Professor of Biostatistics
>> Case Western Reserve University
>> (but still keenly professionally active)
>> 910.553.4224; Cell: 216.312.3203
>>
>> *“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I
>> learn.”*
>>
>>          *― Benjamin Franklin*
>>
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