[R-SIG-Mac] R for macOS Big Sur

[Jean Thioulouse]

Hi

- On Intel Macs:

R 4.0.3 binary is available for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and higher (including Big Sur).

- On M1 Macs (Big Sur) :

You can use the above R binary in Rosetta mode (faster than on most intel macs)

And, if you are "intrepid" (according to Prof. Ripley): There is an experimental R-devel build of the R framework at https://mac.r-project.org/.  That page reports 'failed' but usually the framework is complete.

Both are doing quite well on my Mac Mini M1 and run faster that on my Intel Core i5 2018 MacBook Pro.

And you can also use RStudio in Rosetta mode.

Jean


> Le 14 janv. 2021 à 19:06, Gregory Coats via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> a écrit :
> 
> macOS Big Sur has shipped with all Apple Mac computers since Thu 2020-11-12.
> The web site https://mac.r-project.org/ shows that as of Thu 2021-01-14 00:56 
> 1. R compiled for Big Sur for Macs with the Intel CISC x86_64 chip is not available.
> 2. R compiled for Big Sur for Macs with the Apple M1 RISC chip (=ARM64) FAILED to compile.
> So, R is not available to any of us who have bought Apple Mac computers in the past 2 months.
> 
> A note posted to R-SIG-Mac on Thu 2021-01-14 by Brian Ripley says 
> "The goal remains to release a native binary distribution with R 4.1.0 about April 2021."
> A similar note posted on Fri 2021-01-08 said 
> "We hope this will be solved by the end of January 2021."
> 
> Waiting until April 2021 to run an application on a computer purchased in Nov 2020 seems like a very long wait. I suggest a goal of releasing R compiled for Big Sur for Macs with the Intel CISC x86_64 chip before the end of January 2021.
> Greg Coats
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