Re: [R-pkg-devel] 'Default' macos (x86) download URL now gone?

2023-04-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Simon, On 24 April 2023 at 18:28, Simon Urbanek wrote: | thanks - the problem is that there is not a single installer package (for several years now), so that URL is ambiguous. Whether the missing link is a good or bad depends on how it is used. I would argue that any link to that URL is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] 'Default' macos (x86) download URL now gone?

2023-04-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
Dirk, thanks - the problem is that there is not a single installer package (for several years now), so that URL is ambiguous. Whether the missing link is a good or bad depends on how it is used. I would argue that any link to that URL is inherently bad, because there is no way of knowing that

[R-pkg-devel] 'Default' macos (x86) download URL now gone?

2023-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
The URL ${CRAN}/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg is in fairlt widespread use. A quick Google query [1] reveals about 1.1k hits. And it happens to be used too in a CI job a colleague noticed failing yesterday. The bin/macosx/ page now prominently displays both leading flavours R-4.3.0-arm64.pkg