In short, you need at the very least Xcode and a Fortran compiler. R 4.3.0 and higher use universal GNU Fortran 12.2 compiler. You can download an installer package gfortran-12.2-universal.pkg (242MB) - for more details and other download options see R-macos GNU Fortran releases on GitHub.
R 3.5.0-3.6.3 El Capitan binaries and higer were using more recent Clang compiler and GNU Fortran 6.1 to provide OpenMP parallelization support and C++17 standard features. If you want to compile R packages from sources, please download GNU Fortran binary from the official GNU Fortran Binaries page - in particular OS X 10.11 gfortran 6.1. Alternatively, we are providing a copy here as well as Clang binaries for OS X 10.11 and higher - see below for the download links.
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clang-8.0.0.pkg (OS X 10.11+, signed, 64-bit) MD5-hash: 664582b0722cb59802cb762b2ad7548b (ca. 482Mb) |
Clang 8.0.0 for OS X 10.11 and higher, release build for x86_64, signed package, installs into /usr/local/clang8. To be used with El Capitan builds of R 3.7.0 and higher. It is an installer version of the official LLVM released binaries only modified to use the path above. |
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clang-7.0.0.pkg (OS X 10.11+, signed, 64-bit) MD5-hash: cef3fd2a5c165d00f9941f64ea4024f7 (ca. 463Mb) |
Clang 7.0.0 for OS X 10.11 and higher, release build for x86_64, signed package, installs into /usr/local/clang7. To be used with El Capitan builds of R 3.6.x. It is an installer version of the official LLVM released binaries only modified to use the path above. |
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clang-6.0.0.pkg (OS X 10.11+, signed, 64-bit) MD5-hash: c29700c4e7b2914073ef7e741eb105bc (ca. 418Mb) |
Clang 6.0.0 for OS X 10.11 and higher, static build for x86_64, signed package, installs into /usr/local/clang6. To be used with El Capitan builds of R 3.5.x. |
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gfortran-6.1.pkg (OS X 10.11+, signed, 64-bit) MD5-hash: 201026216e8b373d9cd2efc0cc474bb8 (ca. 73Mb) |
GNU Fortran 6.1 for OS X 10.11 and higher - a copy from GFortranBinaries pages for x86_64, signed package, installs into /usr/local/gfortran (identical content, re-packaged to a flat Installer package and signed). To be used with El Capitan builds of R.
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gfortran-4.2.3.pkg (OS X 10.5+, signed, 64-bit driver) MD5-hash: 8783f803038abe6487a362ad5b8995ea (ca. 27MB) gfortran-4.2.3.dmg (OS X 10.4, 32-bit driver) MD5-hash: 9551fc46f55537dd1db581154daf27ef (ca. 27MB) |
Universal GNU Fortran 4.2.3 for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. It is necessary in order to build R packages from sources that contain Fortran code.
Unlike many other builds, this is a fully universal build of GNU Fortran that uses Apple's driver and supports all target architectures (i386, ppc, x86_64 and ppc64). As such it fully supports compilation into fat files like gfortran -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -arch ppc64 t.f -o t
on both Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs (32- and 64-bit). Dependent libraries are fat as well, avoiding problems known from other Fortran builds (such as those from HPC). It installs in /usr/local and comes with an uninstall-script.
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tcltk-8.5.5-x11.pkg (OS X 10.5+, signed) MD5-hash: e7c406d91762ffdc4539b23c5b5a3ab4 (ca. 9MB) tcltk-8.5.5-x11.dmg (OS X 10.4) MD5-hash: c32dda1b9f2c2776a02cec4e03befc76 (ca. 9MB) |
Universal build of Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 for X11 (32-bit and 64-bit). This library is necessary in order to use the tcltk R package (for R 2.8.0 - 2.15.3 only!). It installs in /usr/local. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher for 32-bit R and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or higher for 64-bit R.
NOTE: R 3.0.0 and higher comes bundled with Tck/Tk 8.6.0 so you do not need this package |
For other (optional) 3rd party libraries for development see http://mac.R-project.org/libs/. The devpack has been superseded by those libraries. For R you may want to download and install libpng, libjpeg, readline, freetype, fontconfig, pixman and cairo.
Source code for all 3rd party libraries can be found at http://mac.R-project.org/src/
The dependency libraries used by the CRAN macOS build system are now managed by build recipes. Package authors wishing to add static dependendies can create a pull request to add a dependency.
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You may also want to read the R FAQ and R for Mac OS X FAQ. For discussion of Mac-related topics and reporting Mac-specific bugs, please use the R-SIG-Mac mailing list.
Information, tools and most recent daily builds of the R GUI, R-patched and R-devel can be found at http://mac.R-project.org/. Please visit that page especially during beta stages to help us test the Mac OS X binaries before final release! The page also contains links to experimental builds as such 64-bit R for OS X.
Link to corresponding sources: http://mac.R-project.org/src/
Last modified: 2022/04/22, by Simon Urbanek