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Subject:    Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R vs. Microsoft R-Open updates?
From:       Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-06-29 17:00:53
Message-ID: af91fd30-f39f-735c-95d6-694185d38f4c () gmail ! com
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On 29/06/2016 11:56 AM, cgw@witthoft.com wrote:
> I posted to the Microsoft forums, and got this reply from David Smith,
> one of the biggies over at RStudio:

No, David isn't at RStudio.  He was at Revolution, but it was bought 
(assimilated?) by Microsoft, so he's there now.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Furthermore, you must *uninstall* MRO if you wish to replace it with
> CRAN R, or you'll experience the symptoms you describe (wrong program
> icon, etc.). The uninstallation instructions are provided on MRAN,
> here:https://mran.microsoft.com/archives/install-doc/mro-3.2.4/#tab-NJeMmo0uxW-1
> 
> 
> cd /Applications
> sudo rm -rf "Microsoft R Open".app
> cd /Library/Frameworks
> sudo rm -rf R.framework
> sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/R
> sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/Rscript
> 
> > On Jun 27, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek@r-project.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Jun 26, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Carl Witthoft <carl@witthoft.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi.
> > > I D/L'd the 3.3.1 version of R for MacOSX and ran the installer. After getting \
> > > some "can't load" error messages, I discovered that the installer had updated \
> > > the MicrosoftROpen.app, not the "vanilla"  R.app . Is this expected behavior, \
> > > or am I making a hash of my apps and libraries by trying to keep both R and MRO \
> > > available on my (Yosemite) machine?
> > 
> > I don't know about MRO (sounds somewhat paradoxical ;)), but Apple Installer \
> > simply upgrades the application on your machine no matter where you moved it \
> > (whether you like it or not). If it really did upgrade your MRO app then it means \
> > Microsoft doesn't even bother changing the ID of the app which means they still \
> > claim it's our CRAN R which sounds really wrong given the name...
> 
> When you look at the MRO installation of R, the MRO.app looks just like
> your (and Stephan Iacus and the other contributors) R.app at least to my
> intermediate-level understanding of how to measure similarity. It
> includes citation of authorship but they did change the names of icons.
> The TO-DO list is identical. The png ions for history, prefs, quit, the
> NEWS text file, and many other items in the package contents are the
> same. This is a side by sided display of the Package Contents (converted
> to pdf):
> 
> It would be no surprise if two installations of the same version
> conflicted since they are using the same names for many modules and
> because Revo/MS says they will conflict, unless that is ... they were in
> different directories in the R.Framework tree, which is often the case
> with the MRO releases, since they generally lag behind by one major
> version level. My MRO version 3.2.2 has been working well alongside R
> version 3.3.0 and now 3.3.1. RSwitch.app seems to "switch" everything
> that is needful.
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