Hi folks,
Apologies if this bug has already been noticed, but I wanted to share just
in case it hasn't yet, and this was the best place I found.
The current CRAN-hosted MacOS installation package fails to correctly
create symbolic links to /usr/local/bin for machines with `uname -r`
release version of 20 or above. The faulty logic is in
R/R-fw.pkg/Scripts/postflight; lines 6-13:
if uname -r | grep '^1[5-9]' >/dev/null; then
## 15.0 and higher don't allow messing with /usr/bin
## so use /usr/local/bin instead
if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin ]; then
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
fi
cd /usr/local/bin
fi
This seems to have resulted in some commotion on Stack Exchange and other
places around an inability to access `R` or `Rscript` from the commandline,
along with the usual hacky workarounds.
Hope this is helpful to bring to your attention!
Best,
Yuri
Yuri Broze
314.910.3152
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