[R-SIG-Mac] El Capitan binaries of CRAN packages and R

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi,

Just wanted to point out 2 things about the new El Capitan binaries
in case they've not been noticed yet.

1) Many of the package binaries on CRAN (e.g. found here
   https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.4/) are
   currently broken. Most likely because they were generated just
   before the r72375 change in R (announced here
   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-March/073940.html).

   For example:
      library(e1071)
      example(svm)  # error: object 'R_svmtrain' not found
   or:
      library(rgl)
      rgl.clear()  # error: object 'rgl_clear' not found
   etc...

2) It looks like there has been no successful El Capitan build
   of R since March 21st on the "R for Mac OS X Developer's Page":

     https://r.research.att.com/

Hopefully these issues can be taken care of soon.

Thanks,
H.


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