[R-SIG-Mac] Running R on Mac OS10.9.3 [cf. Best installation approach of R on Mavericks]

[Tim Dickinson]

Hi--- I am also setting up a new OS10.9 (Mavericks) machine and 
installed the corresponding build of R 3.1.0 only to discover that the 
Package Manager doesn't work. Without uninstalling anything I then tried 
installing the Snow Leopard version and still get the same error message 
pasted below: "'.find.package' is defunct."

I think this is the problem referred to on list by Brian Ripley: 
"However, the coverage for the Mavericks binary packages on CRAN is 
still not as good as for Snow Leopard, and if you primarily use binary 
packages we recommend the Snow Leopard CRAN binary.  The benefits of the 
Mavericks build come when installing packages from sources."

I'm not very good at complicated installs, so I would be grateful for 
advice how to recover from this and get a functioning copy of the Snow 
Leopard version installed on my machine.

Many thanks, ---TAD.

> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) -- "Spring Dance"
> Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
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> [R.app GUI 1.63 (6734) x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0]
>
> [History restored from /Users/tad/.Rapp.history]
>
> Error: '.find.package' is defunct.
> Use 'find.package' instead.
> See help("Defunct")
> >

  
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