R for Mac OS X Developer's Page

This is the new home for experimental binaries and documentation related to R for Mac OS X. To learn more about the R software or download released versions, please visit www.r-project.org.

All software on this page is strictly experimental and subject to acceptance of the supplied R license agreement and the disclaimer at the end of the page.

In addition to this nightly generated page, visit the Building R page for the most recent tips.

Index

Nightly builds of R for Mac OS X
Nightly builds of the R.app GUI
Tools for R development
Experimental binary packages
Experimental 64-bit build of R
Other binaries and tools (e.g. RSwitch, Graphviz, GTK+, ..)

Universal nightly builds for Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard)

R framework

Build	OS	Date	Status	Download
R-2.6-branch R 2.6.2 Patched (2008-03-24)	tiger	Apr 1 02:44	i386: OK (log) ppc: OK (log) universal: OK	R-2.6-branch-tiger-universal.tar.gz (23Mb) R-2.6-branch-45011.dmg (25Mb, installer incl. GUI)
R-2.7-branch R 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-14)	tiger	May 15 03:08	i386: OK (log) ppc: OK (log) universal: OK	R-2.7-branch-tiger-universal.tar.gz (23Mb) R-2.7-branch-45690.dmg (25Mb, installer incl. GUI)
R-devel R 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-05-14)	tiger	May 15 03:08	i386: OK (log) ppc: OK (log) universal: OK	R-devel-tiger-universal.tar.gz (23Mb) R-devel-45690.dmg (25Mb, installer incl. GUI)
R-2.6-branch R 2.6.2 Patched (2008-03-24)	leopard	Apr 1 02:44	i386: OK (log) ppc: OK (log) x86_64: OK (log) ppc64: OK (log) universal: OK	R-2.6-branch-leopard-universal.tar.gz (25Mb)
R-2.7-branch R 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-12)	leopard	May 15 01:58	i386: make FAILED (log) ppc: make FAILED (log) x86_64: make FAILED (log) ppc64: OK (log) universal: FAILED: Missing build result for R-2.7-branch-leopard-x86_64 Missing build result for R-2.7-branch-leopard-ppc Missing build result for R-2.7-branch-leopard-i386
R-devel R 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-05-13)	leopard	May 15 01:58	i386: make FAILED (log) ppc: make FAILED (log) x86_64: make FAILED (log) ppc64: OK (log) universal: FAILED: Missing build result for R-devel-leopard-x86_64 Missing build result for R-devel-leopard-ppc Missing build result for R-devel-leopard-i386

Important note: Leopard builds above are strictly experimental and not supported by CRAN. Although CRAN packages may accidentally be compatible, they exist only for 32-bit, so for 64-bit R you must use install.packages(...,type='source') and have all necessary development tools. The only build intentionally compatible with CRAN packages is the R-2.6-branch.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.4 or higher for Tiger builds and Mac OS X 10.5 or higher for Leopard builds. For additional tools necessary for compiling packages, see below.

The installer image (*.dmg) is packaged exactly the same way as the CRAN release of R (including the GUI) and it will update your R version (unless you delete the last receipt - see instructions during installation). Alternatively you can use the tar-ball (*.tar.gz) which must be unpacked in the root (e.g. tar fvxz R*.tar.gz -C /), but doesn't contain the GUI (see below for a separate download).

For experimental/beta binary builds of packages use http://r.research.att.com/ repository.

The build results for CRAN can be found at the CRAN check summary page. For Bioconductor packages see http://r.research.att.com/results/. Package maintainers, please check this page after you release a new package or version.

Mac OS X GUI

Version	Build	Download
Mac OS X GUI rev. 5041 for R 2.6.x	Deployment	R-GUI-5041-2.6-Deployment.dmg
Mac OS X GUI rev. 5130 for R 2.7.x	Deployment	R-GUI-5130-2.7-Deployment.dmg
Mac OS X GUI rev. 5130 for R 2.8.x	Deployment	R-GUI-5130-2.8-Deployment.dmg
Mac OS X GUI rev. 5041 for R 2.6.x	Deployment	R-GUI-5041-2.6-Deployment.dmg
Mac OS X GUI rev. 5130 for R 2.7.x	Deployment	R-GUI-5130-2.7-Deployment.dmg
Mac OS X GUI rev. 5130 for R 2.8.x	Deployment	R-GUI-5130-2.8-Deployment.dmg

To install, open the image and drag the R icon to your Applications folder. Alternatively the GUI can be run directly off that image without copying if you just want to test it.

Tools

In order to compile R and R packages you will need Xcode Developer Tools version 2.4.0 or higher and a universal Fortran compiler. For details and download, please read the Tools page.

Building universal binaries

Starting with R 2.5.0 CRAN binaries use Apple's 10.4u SDK allowing universal builds on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Building universal R is done by compliling two R binaries and setting r_arch parameter to ppc and i386 respectively, along with the proper compiler flags. Those two builds can then be installed into the same framework location, R install process merges them correspondingly.

To build an universal package that contains a configure script, it is necessary to run R CMD twice. Assuming you have a source package foo_0.1.tar.gz, this is how you install it universally:

R CMD INSTALL foo_0.1.tar.gz
R_ARCH=/ppc R CMD INSTALL --libs-only foo_0.1.tar.gz

(Note: if the package doesn't contain a configure script, regular single-step installation actually works). You can create a binary package by packing such installed package into a tar ball. The resulting binary will work on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

Experimental binary packages

This site is also a repository for experimental binaries, i.e. you could set it as your default repository for development verion of R such as options(repos=c(CRAN="http://r.research.att.com/"))
The frequency of package updates is currently random - remember, this is an experimental repository and it may not be complete.

Experimental 64-bit R

Experimental R builds have been moved to this page.

Other binaries

The following binaries are not maintained or supported by R-core and are provided without any guarantee and for convenience only (Mac OS X 10.4.4 or higher required). They match the binaries used on the CRAN binary build machine and thus are recommended for use with CRAN R package binaries.

GTK+ 2.10.11 run-time - run-time files of a universal build of GTK+ 2.10.11, necessary for binary R packages that use GTK+ version 2 (such as RGtk2).
Download: gtk2-runtime.dmg (ca. 19MB)
Graphviz 2.12 - universal build (necessary for Rgraphviz from the Bioconductor repository).
Download: graphviz-2.12.dmg
RSwitch - a small GUI that allows you to switch between R versions quickly (if you have multiple versions of R framework installed).
Download: RSwitch-1.1.dmg (ca 120kB, universal, updated 2006/09/22)
Sources: RSwitch-1.1.tar.gz (Xcode project and sources)?

Disclaimer

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