[R-SIG-Mac] More problems with R-3.4.0 beta (R version 3.4.0 beta (2017-04-07 r72496)

[Berend Hasselman]

Hi,

My OS: OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

I installed R version 3.4.0 beta (2017-04-07 r72496) today  from the package  R-3.4-branch-el-capitan.pkg obtained from http://r.research.att.com.

There are several problems with the beta version of R 3.4.0 on macOS.

Problem 1
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There appears to be "problem" with R.app 1.70. See this copy from a small session in R.app (first time)
> history()
Error in .External2(C_savehistory, file) : 
  'savehistory' is not currently implemented
> ?history
starting httpd help server ... done
2017-04-08 09:03:40.230 R[2137:30477] App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app's Info.plist file.
> ?mean

Nothing but blank/empty help pages display.

And R.app's history file was zeroed.

Problem 2
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I restored R.app's history file (from a Time Machine backup) to it's correct place.

Second time startup of R.app 1.70. And then I issued a history() call. Result

> ?history
starting httpd help server ... done
2017-04-08 09:26:42.001 R[3017:38891] App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app's Info.plist file.


Third time starting R.app did not zero out the history file.

Problem 3
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The problem I mentioned yesterday about Rcpp is still there; it appears when I run R in a Terminal.
But when I do library(Rcpp) in R.app no error message is issued. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2017-April/012287.html.


Berend