[R-SIG-Mac] R-3.4.0 installation problem?

[David Winsemius]

> On Jun 13, 2017, at 4:19 AM, Alfonso Saera Vila <alfonsosaera at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am working in a MacBook Pro (15 inches, mid 2010), OSX El Capitan (10.11.6), 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
> 
> Today I tried to update from R-3.3 to R-3.4.0. I downloaded the R-3.4.0.pkg from https://cran.r-project.org/ site. After downloading I checked the MD5 checksum for the R-3.4.0.pkg image and it was the same than in the r-project website. I executed the file by double-clicking and everything appear to work fine, at the end it said that everything was installed with no problem.
> 
> The problem I have is that the old R.app was removed from my application folder but the new (R-3.4.0) does not appear in the application folder either.

R does not appear in the Applications folder. It is fairly deep in the Frameworks tree that in part of your system files. The R.app program is just a GUI to manage tasks in R in a more Apple-typical manner. It knows where to find the core R programs and lets you choose where to keep your package files. When I update R and R.app, I see no change in the appearance of R.app in the Application folder, but the new IDE code takes hold if there have been any changes, which may not have happened.. I can tell I have a new one when I open the R.app and see a new version number in the startup messages. e.g:

[R.app GUI 1.70 (7338) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0]

One still needs to copy over the packages and do the update.packages with check.built = TRUE maneuver.

> 
> I tried to download and install the GNU Fortran 6.1 and then reinstall R but nothing changed.

That is only needed if you are going to be compiling packages from source. If you go to http://r.research.att.com/ you can see the current version numbers for the disk images of GUIs that would be mated to various versions of R. (I seem to be somewhat out of date. So if I were having problems, which I'm not, I should be able to separately install the GUI from the current disk image.)


From what you have written I think you have a current version of the GUI and from what I see at http://r.research.att.com/, it appears that the same GUI version could be used for R 3.3.x, 3.4.x and 3.5.x, so maybe no change was needed.

> 
> I tried to look for a solution in google and stackoverblow forum but did not find any clue of what to do. I hope I am not missing any stupid detail or making a rookie mistake. Sorry if this is not the way of posting this.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Alfonso
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA