[R-SIG-Mac] New {macrtools} package to help setup compiled code environments on Intel and ARM-based macs

All, Hope all is well. About a month or so back, we revisited the **unofficial** macOS R compilation toolchain setup wizard with a focus on making it more maintainable without an Apple developer subscription. The result is the new {macrtools} R package. You can learn more about it here: GitHu

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] New {macrtools} package to help setup compiled code environments on Intel and ARM-based macs

Just went through the commands, on a new MacBook Pro with M2 Max, MacOS Ventura 13.2.1 I already had Xcode CLI installed, and the gfortran installation went well until it stopped at the icu binary: Downloading binary: https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/arm64/icu-71.1-darwin.20-arm64.tar.xz ..

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] New {macrtools} package to help setup compiled code environments on Intel and ARM-based macs

Adrian, Thanks! Unfortunately, this is a hiccup with the download portion of the R Developer binaries [1] from the {recipes} system on CRAN [2]. It looks like the system might have been in mid-update or we overloaded it with download requests. Ewk! I’ll try to see if we can meter the requests w