[R-SIG-Mac] Experiences with El Capitan

[peter dalgaard]

<Round of applause, please!>

-pd

> On 04 Oct 2015, at 18:53 , Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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> The machine which provides the 'r-devel-osx-x86_64-clang' checks on the CRAN check farm has been upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan and a complete round of checks has been run.
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> 1) There is a lot of misinformation around about 'System Integrity Protection' aka 'rootless'.
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> Upgrading to El Capitan moves files which are not allowed under /usr to /Library/SystemMigration/usr, so you will be able to see what was lost. This includes /usr/bin/R, /usr/bin/Rscript (but the installer installs these under /usr/local/bin on El Capitan as from R 3.2.2), /usr/X11R6, /usr/texbin .  Contrary to reports from betas, the link /usr/X11 is preserved.
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> If an installer tries to create a disallowed file such as /usr/bin/R, this is silently ignored (at least in the cases we tested).  So you can install e.g. R 3.1.3 but the executables will not appear in the default Terminal path (more details in the current manual).
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> 2) After updating you need to re-install the Command Line Tools and R (to get the links in /usr/local).  I did not need to re-install Java nor XQuartz.
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> 3) All the 'Mavericks' binary packages tested worked.  The source packages of rJava and rgl (only) cannot be installed and the maintainers have patched versions available.
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> There is updated information in the latest 'R Installation and Administration' manual in R-patched and R-devel (in the sources, or the online versions at https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html will update in a day or two).
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
> 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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