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

[peter dalgaard]

Also notice that Yosemite itself still has issues that were not or were only partially resolved in 10.10.1. I currently see

Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air-2:BUILD pd$ 

which is better than 10.10.0 where I was up to -26 at some point, but the upgrade apparently  didn't resolve this (machine detecting itself as another machine) completely.

Rather more infuriating is that the UI is laggy, in particular, Finder can get so slow that it becomes nigh-on impossible to scroll to and select a simple file. I'm sure Brian would be (is being?) driven nuts by inertia of the zoom feature. Periodic reboots help, but this is supposed to be Unix...

And Firefox still doesn't speak Java - it detects the plugin, then claims that it is missing when you go to a page that uses it. Fortunately, the two sites that I needed it for have both switched to Javascript.

- Peter D.

> On 25 Dec 2014, at 08:52 , Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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.”*
>>> 
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