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

[Simon Urbanek]

Yes, there is still quite a list of issues with Yosemite itself (Java, Mail, ...) - although we have covered most known issues on the R side, I wouldn't call Yosemite itself a stable OS yet. If you don't have to upgrade (family sharing and other new features) then I wouldn't recommend it at this point.

Cheers,
Simon


On Dec 25, 2014, at 6:52 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 .
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>>> 
>>> 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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