Dear Richard M. Heiberger,
Re: > Apple has been popping an offer for a free upgrade to Mavericks. > (I currently have OS X Lion10.7.5 on an 8GB MacBook Air). > Other than this offer from Apple, I have no dissatisfaction with the Mac > for my use pattern. > > There has been much comment on this list about the difficulties of > compiling R with Mac. > I am not planning to compile R. > > Are there any remaining issues with using R on the Mac that should make > we want to not upgrade? Or is Mavericks now stable enough that upgrading > would make sense. > Mavericks seems OK: I bought a MacBook Air last december, and immediately put Mavericks on it. Since then, I'm running R (3.0.x) without any problems (as far as I remember). So it seems safe to upgrade (as to R; other software, such as Filemaker pro, might be incompatible, so read the forums). Best regards, Frank -- Franklin Bretschneider Dept of Biology Utrecht University brets...@xs4all.nl ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.