[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.2.0 Mavericks/Yosemite: help.search showing error

[Kevin Ushey]

Perhaps the latest R-patched should also be published at
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/, just to make it more
discoverable + encourage its use by more users? (In other words --
should users be encouraged to run R 3.2.0-patched instead of R-3.2.0?
If so, the 'patched' link should be advertised more strongly than R
3.2.0, in my opinion).

The http://r.research.att.com/ page is 'scary' for new users -- since
it's a different page, with different styling, and the big
'experimental' caveat (ie -- don't blame us if it blows up your
computer) so I think this dissuades a lot of users from testing. In
particular, that text seems to give the connotation that even
R-patched is also 'dangerous'; I don't think that's true and so that
ends up scaring more potential users off.

Also, is there any reason for displaying a download link for the GUI
sources as well? I imagine the overlap between users downloading R
binaries and users downloading R GUI sources is pretty small; at best
I think it confuse new users (wait, so if I want to install R with a
GUI, do I need to download both? What are 'sources', anyway?)

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:25 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2015, at 8:14 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
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>>> On 15 Jun 2015, at 16:51 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) -- "Full of Ingredients"
>>>>>
>>>>> ^^ but that's old!
>>>>
>>>> Well, it's what I got 2 days ago from http://r.research.att.com/
>>>
>>> Well, we don't change released versions retroactively.
>>>
>>> R 3.2.0 is R 3.2.0. If there's a bug in 3.2.0, there's a bug in 3.2.0 and there will continue to be a bug in 3.2.0. If we fix it, the fixed version will be something other than 3.2.0.
>>>
>>> (Actually, we could conceiveably distribute and modify R.app and other shell applications out of sync with R itself, but that is not what we do.)
>>
>> The bug is (or was)  in the interaction with the GUI. Not in R 3.2.0.
>>
>
> But the GUI *is* part of the R 3.2.0 release so, yes, it was a bug in R 3.2.0.
>
> You can always fetch either the GUI or R from the nightly pages. Since you knew it's the GUI, you could simply take the updated GUI from there. But if that doesn't fix it, you still have to get the full R since it may be an interaction of both.
>
> All am I asking is for people to test the betas/RCs since we typically get reports only after the release which is simply too late to do anything about it.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
>> --
>> David.
>>
>>>
>>> -pd
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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>>
>> David Winsemius
>> Alameda, CA, USA
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