Actually, it's not that hard to set up for a source compile for MacOS. The hard part is to do it precisely like the CRAN binaries so that you can run binary packages off CRAN, but in other setups you can just build packages from source.
A stone in the shoe has been that the documentation on mac.r-project.org was littered with out-of-date information, but it seems that Simon has now cleaned this up considerably. It should now be possible simply to follow instructions on http://mac.r-project.org/tools/. I'm sure Simon will be receptive to information if something doesn't quite work. -pd > On 15 May 2020, at 18:48 , brodie gaslam via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org> > wrote: > >> >> 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 -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
