----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> > To: "R-devel" <r-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:16:10 AM > Subject: [Rd] OSX Yosemite (10.10): Are package binaries the same as for OSX > Mavericks (10.9)? > > I'm trying to help someone to troubleshoot possible OSX Yosemite > issues, but I've only got access to OSX (< 10.9) so I cannot check > myself. > > When building/installing binary R packages, there are different > binaries depending on OSX version. For instance, CRAN provides > different binaries for 'OS X Snow Leopard' and 'OS X Mavericks', e.g. > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/matrixStats/index.html. > > What about the new OSX Yosemite? From > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Yosemite > it > looks like its binaries are the same/compatible with those of 'OS X > Mavericks' - can someone please confirm this? Another way to put it, > if a repository provides OSX Mavericks binaries will an OSX Yosemite > user install these or we s/he fall back to installing from source? >
Yes, a Yosemite user will by default be installing packages built on Mavericks using the Mavericks build of R, and they should work. Dan > Thanks > > Henrik > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel