On 23/04/2023 11:25 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
The URL ${CRAN}/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg is in fairlt widespread use. A quick
Google query [1] reveals about 1.1k hits. And it happens to be used too in a
CI job a colleague noticed failing yesterday.
The bin/macosx/ page now prominently displays both leading flavours
R-4.3.0-arm64.pkg
R-4.3.0-x86_64.pkg
which makes sense give the architecture choices. We can of course update the
CI script, and likely will.
But given that this was apparently a somewhat widely-used URL to fetch R on
macOS, may I suggest that the convenience link be reestablished as a courtesy?
[Moved from R-pkg-devel]
Would that make sense? You suggest pointing to R-4.3.0-x86_64.pkg, but
I think fewer and fewer MacOS users would want that, so maybe it's not a
good idea.
On the other hand, maybe R-latest-arm64.pkg and R-latest-x86_64.pkg
should be created.
Duncan Murdoch
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