[R-SIG-Mac] R and Ventura

[Simon Urbanek]

> On Dec 15, 2022, at 1:37 AM, Calboli Federico (LUKE) <federico.calboli using luke.fi> wrote:
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>> On 14. Dec 2022, at 14.19, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca> wrote:
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>> Hello.
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>> Shortly after Ventura released a saw a few posts on this list about peculiarities (I saw something about Xcode common line tools I believe). I am thinking of upgrading soon from Monterey to Ventura (Intel chip) and wanted to see if there were any pitfalls. I looked at the MAC FAQ on CRAN and in the tools directory (regarding compiler tools) and see no specific mention of Ventura.
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> I am on Ventura and I have no issue.  I do not use XCode, just the command line tools.  Both are available as a stable release install.  I use homebrew for gfortran.
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Just a side note: please don't use compilers from Homebrew, they are not compatible and cause issues when combined with other binaries because of different run-times. For R releases please use https://mac.r-project.org/tools/ if you need to compile Fortran packages from sources.

Cheers,
Simon


> XQuartz should probably be reinstalled, and a new version was made availble early this/last week.
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> Basically, unless you expect to compile packages from source, everything should work.  If you install from source, or use specific packages that call C or Fortran code other might give better insight.
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