I am using Homebrew on a Mac (two Macs - one at home, one at work) instead of the official R package, and I did not have any problems after upgrades - maybe I am lucky, maybe not as picky in defining “problem”, but my suggestion would be to try R from homebrew to install R.
OK - no support from here - I know. And homebrew has also binary versions. What is missing, is a hombrew R package repository. Maybe an idea to create one? Cheers, Rainer > On 2 Apr 2020, at 02:37, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 01/04/2020 2:48 p.m., Carl Witthoft wrote: >> If I should ask over at r-sig-debian instead of here, please tell me. >> I don't wish to clog r-sig-mac with off-topic stuff. >> I've been watching the massive headaches people are dealing with trying >> to keep R fully compatible with each MacOS X upgrade, I'm wondering >> whether replacing my iMac (2009) with a new Mac really makes sense from >> an R - user point of view, as opposed to getting some inexpensive >> desktop and installing Linux. I know I can run R and RStudio under >> Linux, for example, but don't know what limitations, if any there are >> when it comes to building packages from source, getting compatible >> compilers, and so on. >> What have some of you 'power R users' discovered when/if you tried to >> build , or incorporate Bioconductor or other repository's packages under >> Linux? > > If your iMac is still working, try installing Ubuntu or some other Linux on > it. I think at that age Apple is no longer providing upgrades, but I just > put Ubuntu on a 2008 iMac, and it works well. (I needed to upgrade the > memory, but that just cost $40 for 4 GB.) > > So I got a $40 desktop, with a nice screen. > > Duncan Murdoch > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7490-0066 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zürich Office Y34-J-74 Winterthurerstrasse 190 8075 Zürich Switzerland Office: +41 (0)44 635 47 64 Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 email: rainer.k...@uzh.ch rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
