[R-SIG-Mac] Please test R 4.0.4 RC

[Simon Urbanek]

Thanks for testing and the reports!

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the touch-bar issue, because it doesn''t appear when run in Xcode with touch-bar emulation and I don't have a Mac with Big Sur and a touch-bar. Moreover, R is not providing custom touch-bar icons so I can't even find out which element it is complaining about. If anyone has any leads, let me know. If we ever find a work-arournd, it should be possible to do in the GUI alone so possibly after the release (unlike the Quartz bug which needed changes in core R).

Other projects have seen the same issue so it's likely a macOS bug, but the fix that worked for others (re-compile with Xcode 12) did not work for us (the last build was using the latests Xcode 12.4). 

Cheers,
Simon



> On Feb 13, 2021, at 3:05 PM, John Fox <jfox using mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear Simon,
> 
> I'm still seeing the warning on a MacBook Pro with a touchbar running Big Sur:
> 
> ----------- snip ------------
> 
> R version 4.0.4 RC (2021-02-12 r79998) -- "Lost Library Book"
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> [R.app GUI 1.74 (7929) x86_64-apple-darwin17.0]
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> [History restored from /Users/johnfox/.Rapp.history]
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> 2021-02-12 21:00:21.163 R[19677:11057750] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSPopoverTouchBarItemButton: 0x7f8c4a74a480>) to be less than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 4.0.4 RC (2021-02-12 r79998)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Big Sur 10.16
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.0.4
> 
> ----------- snip ------------
> 
> I hope this helps,
> John
> 
> John Fox, Professor Emeritus
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> 
> On 2021-02-12 6:50 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Dear macOS useRs,
>> please test the latest R 4.0.4 RC builds from
>> https://mac.r-project.org/
>> especially if you are running macOS Big Sur. The known issues introduced by Big Sur have been fixed, but I cannot replicate nor test the spurious touchbar warning.
>> Also a reminder to *not* install XQuartz betas even if XQuartz ask you to - they are betas for a reason (=unstable) and break things.
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
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