[R-SIG-Mac] R 4.3.1 fails on Mac OS X Sonoma

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 02/10/2023 05:41, David Winsemius wrote:
> Neither of you have mentioned anything about the need for reinstallation of Xquartz. Was that done?

I did not need to do so when updating to Sonoma.  And of course the 
E.app console (not 'base R') which seems to be the issue does not use X11.

I also did not need to reinstall CLT on this occasion.

The main issue I have found with Sonoma is that it has changed to a 
different (apparently FreeBSD-derived) implementation of iconv with 
(deliberate but undocumented in the release notes) changes in behaviour 
yet still reporting itself as 'libiconv 1.11' using a call specific to 
GNU libiconv).  We have started added workarounds to R-devel and R-patched.

> 
> —
> David.
> 
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>> On Oct 1, 2023, at 10:02 AM, William Revelle <lists using revelle.net> wrote:
>>
>> Rodney,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick reply.
>>
>> It turns out this is just a problem with the base R  for Mac graphics window (which is to say, the version I like).  I can still use R-studio (which I don’t like as much).
>>
>> I can wait patiently for a patch to the Mac version while using R-Studio.
>>
>> That way I don’t have to go through the hassle of trying to reinstall 13.x and dumping 14.0.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 1, 2023, at 11:22 AM, Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa using mcw.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bill:
>>> Well, I am usually pretty cautious about this.  I don’t move to the
>>> next release until R is ready.  For Ventura, it took quite awhile
>>> before that happened.  Sorry
>>> -- 
>>> Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His
>>> Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
>>> Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
>>> Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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>>> Dear Mac users of R and developers.
>>>
>>>
>>> I recently updated to the Sonoma OS for Mac  (14.0)  and it has a serious problem for graphics.
>>>
>>> plot(1:10) creates a graphic window but I can not switch back to the console window using either command-1 or the mouse.
>>>
>>> Anybody else having this problem?  Any suggestions for a patch?
>>>
>>> I am running a MacBook Pro with M1 Max.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
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