[R-SIG-Mac] Unable to install R-2.11.1.pkg and up to R-3.0.2 in Mac OSX 10.8.5

[Simon Urbanek]

Luis,

On Jan 20, 2014, at 3:53 PM, LUIS VELO <luisvelo1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear People
> 
> I have an iMac 2013 with a Fusion Drive and OSX 10.8.5. No plans to migrate to Mavericks yet.
> 
> I have had issues also with x11 that I've solved with a "direct" install:
> 
> installer -pkg ~/Desktop/XQuartz.pkg -target / -allowUntrusted -store
> 
> But, when I try to install R-2.11.1 and above (I'm using R-2.10.1, and works well ;) ) I get the following message from the installer:
> 
> R 3.0.2 for Mac OS X 10.6 or higher (Snow Leopard build) can't be installed on this disk.
> This build of R requires MAC OS X 10.6 or higher.
> 
> If I try from the Terminal
> 
> sudo installer -pkg ~/Desktop/R-3.0.2.pkg -target /
> 
> or:
> sudo -s
> installer -verbose -pkg ~/Desktop/R-3.0.2.pkg -target /
> 
> I receive this output from terminal:
> 
> installer: Cannot install on volume / because it is disabled. 
> installer: This build of R requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher
> 
> And it fails.
> What can I do? Delete some plist? Regenerate something? Reinstall Mountain Lion? I really prefer to not to have to rebuild from source.
> 

What the above says is that the Apple Installer doesn't recognize the system on the drive you are installing to as OS X 10.6.0 or higher.
We don't control how the Installer determines the version, but typically it is stored in 

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

On 10.8.5 you should see

$ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>
	<string>12F45</string>
	<key>ProductCopyright</key>
	<string>1983-2013 Apple Inc.</string>
	<key>ProductName</key>
	<string>Mac OS X</string>
	<key>ProductUserVisibleVersion</key>
	<string>10.8.5</string>
	<key>ProductVersion</key>
	<string>10.8.5</string>
</dict>
</plist>


If in doubt please have a look at the Installer log (enable all logs, not just errors) as you are installing R - it may possibly give some clue.

Thanks,
Simon





> I have had no issues installing R on my notebook with Lion.
> 
> Regards
> MW
> 
> ps: I've also posted in this thread
> http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117693/unable-to-install-r-2-11-1-pkg-and-up-to-r-3-0-2-in-mac-osx-10-8-5
> 
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