[R-SIG-Mac] Using cairo on arm64 macOS

[Jan Netík]

Thank you for sharing. Indeed, with R 4.1.2, cairo works well. But when I
install the newest R 4.1.3, cairo capability is FALSE. Isn`t the cairo
omitted from the newest bundle?

Best,
Jan

st 16. 3. 2022 v 16:18 odesílatel Jean Thioulouse <
jean.thioulouse using univ-lyon1.fr> napsal:

> Hi
>
> No problem with cairo here. I have a MacBook M1 with plain R install and I
> can use svg, cairo_pdf and cairo_ps.
> Maybe try to re-install R...
>
> > capabilities()
>        jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
>    http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
>         NLS       Rprof     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE
>     libcurl
>        TRUE
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Monterey 12.2.1
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:
>  /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
> LAPACK:
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>
> Random number generation:
>  RNG:     Mersenne-Twister
>  Normal:  Inversion
>  Sample:  Rounding
>
> locale:
> [1] fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8/C/fr_FR.UTF-8/fr_FR.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_4.1.2 tools_4.1.2
> >
>
>
> > Le 16 mars 2022 à 14:41, Jan Netík <netikja using gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a repost of a topic which I have accidentally posted on r-devel
> mailing list:
> >
> > first, let me appreciate the efforts around "Apple Silicone" builds of
> R, works like a charm! However, I have found recently that this build does
> not have cairo in capabilities() and in turn I cannot use cairo_pdf device.
> Intel build has cairo readily available, but M1 does not. I have done
> various attempts on installing cairo using brew or
> install.package("Cairo"); maybe the most preferable way is to follow
> https://mac.r-project.org/bin/, but that also failed stating
> "architecture aarch64 is not supported on os darwin20, only available
> architectures: x86_64arm64". I have also tried downloading cairo from
> https://mac.r-project.org/bin/darwin20/arm64/ and copying it into
> opt/R/arm64, but with no success... Nor current devel R worked for me in
> that issue.
> >
> > I think that I overlooked something, maybe around installing cairo to
> opts/R/arm64 (is it really mere copying?). In that case I would edit the
> docs and websites around the Apple Silicone build to better clarify what
> needs to be done, but I may be that cairo is just not yet supported.
> >
> > Anyway many thank for looking into this!
> >
> > Best,
> > Jan
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