Homebrew is not particularly unrecommended either, but you could get in trouble 
with compatibility vs. CRAN package binaries. "Unsupported" is more precise: 
None of us are trying these builds so if they break, you could be on your own. 
(From the Open Source perspective, the more people who know how to deal with R 
at source code level, the better; and homebrew does appear to have a 
substantially better reputation than the older MacPorts system did.)

From that point of view it could be easier for you just to grab R-patched from 
r.research.att.com. Those binaries are unsigned, though, so you need to make a 
leap of trust that noone has hacked their way in and replaced the binaries 
since they were built. Pragmatically you need to download, open the Downloads 
folder (in Finder!), right-click the package, choose to use Installer.app, and 
accept to open it even though yadayadayada in the dialogue window.

-pd

> On 6 Dec 2017, at 11:24 , Luis Puerto <luiss.pue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Federico, 
> 
> I know that it isn’t recommended by R Core Group, but you can always instal 
> it from source using Homebrew. I’ve believe that there is even a bottle 
> already and you don’t need to compile. I’m not sure. 
> 
> I’ve using a pure Homebrew install in my Mac and runs faster then the CRAN 
> one, with openBlas and OpenMP.  
> 
>> On 6 Dec 2017, at 11:26, Federico Calboli <federico.calb...@helsinki.fi> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I know that I can get the latest and greatest binaries from 
>> http://r.research.att.com/ but I am puzzled why there are still no OSX R 
>> 3.4.3 binaries on CRAN.  The Windows installer has been up a few days 
>> already.  Is there anything I am missing concerning this delay?  
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> F
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