[R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R

[Ben Clark]

Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek <at> r-project.org> writes:

> 
> On Oct 17, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Gregory Sawyer <gdsawyer <at> 
greatergood.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >> On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz <at> 
me.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Spencer Mass <masss <at> 
newpaltz.edu> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Has anyone had issues installing/running  R3.1.1 2014-07-11, R.app 
1.65 on Yosemite?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> 
> >>> - SM
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I upgraded (over Mavericks) to Yosemite last night. R was already 
installed and I have had no issues at
> this point.
> >> 
> >> I don't normally use R.app and use Emacs with ESS, however, R.app 
appears to be running without issue with
> the limited use that I attempted.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> Marc Schwartz
> >> 
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> > I upgraded to 10.10 Yosemite this morning; R.app seems to be having 
some problems launching, but not all
> the time.  It's crashed twice on startup, but the second attempt (e.g. 
clicking 'Re-open' on the crash
> stack trace panel) seems to work.    (running a very recent 27-inch iMac 
w/ 32Gib core, a 1tb drive, and a
> second 27-inch Apple LED cinema display, and I suspect it might be that 
second display that's causing the
> problems, but that's just speculation right now.)
> 
> If you have a crash, please send me the crash report. If in doubt, check 
your preferences and startup files.
> 
> I have been running Yosemite for quite a while and didn't see any issues 
so far. Given how little changed in
> Yosemite I don't expect any changes to the Mavericks build at this point 
(i.e. Mavericks will remain the
> base target for all recent OS X builds).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 

I've been having issues getting the 'tcltk' package to run. I had this with 
Mavericks at first as well, but once X11 got updated the issue went away. 
But alas for now X11 is up to date and a number of other other packages 
that require the tcltk won't work. Good fun.
-Ben