[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.4.3 binaries

[Balamuta, James Joseph]

Greetings and Salutations Simon,

Thanks for the response. 

> If you want to help, a good start would be to start contributing constructively.

I have no issue with spending time to fix different issues. I’ve written at length about solutions to issues that have arisen in relation to compiled code with macOS and actively work to support community packages.

However, I’m not sure how R/CRAN processes patches, bug tickets, or general help.

c.f. macOS toolchain documentation bug

https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17331

If you could answer a few quick questions for me, I’ll try to start making improvements:

1. Is there a contributing document that describes the procedure regarding patch submission? 
a. I assume this would govern: https://svn.r-project.org/R/ 
2. If I wanted to update the macOS CRAN page, where is that repository? 
3. To coordinate or propose changes before implementing them, is there a good place to post?


Sincerely,

JJB

On 12/17/17, 11:40 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <r at dune.urbanek.info> wrote:

    Of course everything is a public repository (all of R and CRAN is) and you can always submit a patch - but very few people do. We can only address issues that are known. The toolchain is well documented as well both on the CRAN page as well as in the manuals. If you don't bother to read either, there is very little we can do about it. The Fortran compiler you refer to is still provided for the Mavericks builds which are only few months old. If anyone has suggestions for improvements, we're more than happy to accomodate them, but unfortunately no one has been willing to put the effort into it - idle complaints are of no help at all. If you want to help, a good start would be to start contributing constructively.
    
    Cheers,
    Simon
    
    
    
    > On 7/12/2017, at 6:21 AM, Balamuta, James Joseph <balamut2 at illinois.edu> wrote:
    > 
    > Greetings and Salutations All,
    > 
    > First off, I want to say I really appreciate all the work that goes into making R available on macOS. I realize that this is a time intensive process. However, this is now the second consecutive time the macOS binary release has lagged behind other platforms. As a result, would it be possible to add another maintainer? Even more so, could we please update the macOS section of CRAN to reflect the present status of the build? Some information is severely outdated. In particular, on the tools page, there still is a link to gfortran-4.2.3 – which hasn’t been used since R 3.0.0 (?) --  and an installer for the custom compiler clang4 toolchain has yet to appear. If there is a public repository or a means to submit a patch to address these issues I would be more than happy to help since the current setup greatly impacts being able to introduce students to HPC and interfacing with external libraries. 
    > 
    > Sincerely,
    > 
    > JJB
    > 
    > On 12/6/17, 4:22 AM, "R-SIG-Mac on behalf of peter dalgaard" <r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
    > 
    >    I would guess that either Uwe/CRAN is swamped or Simon is traveling to NZ, or both... 
    > 
    >    -pd
    > 
    >> On 6 Dec 2017, at 10:26 , Federico Calboli <federico.calboli at helsinki.fi> wrote:
    >> 
    >> Hi All,
    >> 
    >> I know that I can get the latest and greatest binaries from http://r.research.att.com/ but I am puzzled why there are still no OSX R 3.4.3 binaries on CRAN.  The Windows installer has been up a few days already.  Is there anything I am missing concerning this delay?  
    >> 
    >> Cheers
    >> 
    >> F
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