> On Friday, May 15, 2020, 12:13:04 PM EDT, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > wrote: > On 15 May 2020 at 15:41, Martin Maechler wrote: > | <whining> > | > | Why does nobody anymore help R development by working with > | "R-devel", or at least then the alpha, beta and the "RC" > | (Release Candidate) versions that we release daily for about one > | month before the final release? > | > | Notably a highly staffed enterprise such as Rstudio (viz the bug > | report 17800 above), but also others could really help by > | starting to use the "next version" of R on a routine basis ... > | > | <whining/> > > Seconded. Without testing we can never know. R Core does their part. > > I provided weekly Debian binaries. One each for the two alphas releases, for > the beta release, for the release candidate. It is easy to use these, for > example in a Docker container. > > It is also easy to use this on a normal machine as they are standard (Debian) > packages: install, try some tests, uninstall, revert to previous version by > installing that. > > Dirk
This is a very reasonably request, and all useRs who benefit from the tireless work of R-core should consider doing it. I have considered it, but compiling R from sources on OS X has been my stumbling block. At least last time I tried I got stuck at the Fortran step. It doesn't help I have very limited experience compiling software of the complexity of R. Really, I've only done it within the warm welcoming confines of the vagrant image Tomas Kalibera set up for `rchk`. I also use r-devel on docker, but that isn't very practical for day-to-day usage, which is what I think we need. What would it take to generate pre-release binaries for OS X (and Windows)? I imagine if such were available the volume of testers would increase dramatically (at least, I haven't seen them if they exist). Maybe something the R Consortium would consider funding? Best, B. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
