On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> >> To: "Henrik Bengtsson" <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> >> Cc: "R-devel" <r-devel@r-project.org> >> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 11:21:59 AM >> Subject: Re: [Rd] OSX Yosemite (10.10): Are package binaries the same as for >> OSX Mavericks (10.9)? >> >> >> >> ----- 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. >> > > Provided of course that that Yosemite user is using the Mavericks build of R. > They could also be using the Snow Leopard build of R which should also work, > and would be installing by default packages build on Snow Leopard using the > Snow Leopard build of R.
Thanks for this Dan. As far as I understand, for an OSX user to install binary packages option 'pkgType' has to be set to either "mac.binary" or "mac.binary.mavericks". A few questions for clarification: Q. Is it the default that 'pkgType' be set to "mac.binary" on OSX (< 10.9) and to "mac.binary.mavericks" on OSX (>= 10.9)? Q. Are you saying that if an OSX (>= 10.9) user uses options(pkgType="mac.binary"), then install.packages() will install the OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) binaries *and* that these binaries are backward compatible and should work equally well? Q. In other words, if a user have problems with a particular OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) binary, would a first step of troubleshooting be to ask that user to try the OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) build? Q. If a user has options(pkgType="mac.binary.mavericks"), but the repository does not provide such binaries, will install.packages() fall back to "mac.binary", or will it go directly to "source"? /Henrik PS. <rant>From a non-active OSX user, using names instead of numbers to refer to versions is cute but insane. You need a very good memory to keep track of the ordering of Snow Leopard, Leopard, Mavericks etc. and it's not getting easier.</rant> It would be great if R/BioC and everyone else would always present the version number when talking about OSX version and only use the name for redundancy. > > Dan > > >> 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 >> ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
