On 17/07/2021 21:38, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 17/07/2021 3:39 a.m., Lindsay Foreman wrote:
To whom it may concern,
I am so sorry for being such a dunce. I have been trying and trying
to get the R App to work on my MacBook Air running Big Sur V11.4, and
am just not making any progress. It says that the package I have
downloaded below should have all the elements I need including the R
app GUI. I get this error message "You can’t open the application “R”
because this application is not supported on this Mac"., are you able
to help please?
Is that an Intel or M1 MacBook? If it's an Intel one, you don't want
the arm64 download, you want
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/base/R-4.1.0.pkg
It is listed on the web site as "High Sierra and higher", so it should
work on Big Sur, but only if you have an Intel chip.
Yes, it works on Intel Big Sur. Actually it works perfectly well on
arm64 (aka M1) cpus, as documented in the R-admin manual and on
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ .
For those with arm64 Macs, the current pros and cons of the arm64 build are
Pro:
- It is usually faster, median 1.4x on CRAN packages but in some cases
much more so.
- There have been very occasional Intel binary packages where Rosetta
emulation does not work (and the arm64 binary package did).
Cons:
- Less accuracy as there are no long doubles. That has surprisingly
little impact, in part because CRAN packages have long been checked
without long doubles. But people who test sum(p) == 1 are more likely
to be caught out ....
- Fewer binary packages available, notably not from Bioconductor and
hence CRAN packages requiring those from Bioconductor.
- In the vast majority of cases compiling packages from source will work
(if sometimes a little trickier), but a handful of packages require
Intel CPUs. I have about 30 more CRAN packages failing their checks
that for Intel builds, and about 40 than on Linux.
- Less stable. This is as much the OS as R, with resource (e.g. RAM)
shortages leading to hangs (of R or the whole machine) much more often
than on an Intel Mac. In fairly limited testing this happens more with
the arm64 build than using the Intel build on my M1 Mac.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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