Also the cairographics-based devices (which are not often used on macOS) such as png(type = “cairo”).

These include the tcltk package and the X11 device: attempting to use these without XQuartz will remind you. Various parts of the build require XQuartz to be installed: see. Note the the installer is clever enough to try to upgrade the last-installed version of the application where you installed it (which may not be where you want this time …). The full output (select “Show All Log”) is useful for tracking down problems. If you encounter any problem during the installation, please check the Installer log by clicking on the “Window” menu and item “Installer Log”. The ‘Texinfo’ component is only needed by those installing source packages or R from its sources.) (The ‘Tcl/Tk’ component is needed to use package tcltk. This currently shows four components: everyone will need the ‘R Framework’ component: the remaining components are optional. At the ‘Installation Type’ stage, note the option to ‘Customize’. To install, just double-click on the icon of the file you downloaded. (If using XQuartz, check that is current.) It is important that if you use a binary installer package that your OS is fully updated: look at ‘Updates’ from the ‘App Store’ to be sure.

(Some of these packages are unsigned: to install those Control/right/two-finger click, select ‘Open with’ and ‘Installer’.)įor some older versions of the OS you can in principle (it is little tested) install R from the sources (see macOS).

Installers for R-patched and R-devel are usually available from. This runs on macOS 10.11 and later (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, …). Click on that, then download the file R-3.4.2.pkg and install it. The front page of a CRAN site has a link ‘Download R for OS X’. (‘macOS’ was known as ‘OS X’ from 2012–2016 and as ‘Mac OS X’ before that.)

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