RRO-8.0.3

This release of Revolution R Open is based on R-3.1.3 and adds the performance enhancements from the Intel MKL (optional additional install).

Release Highlights

• Based on the R-3.1.3 engine
• Adds support for Ubuntu 15.04
• Uses a static MRAN snapshot at 2015-04-01 as the CRAN mirror
• Installs checkpoint 0.3.10 from MRAN for package reproducibility
• On Windows and Linux platforms, use of the Intel MKL is now optional. Download and instal the MKL Math Library installer separately to enable multi-threaded math on these platforms. (On Mac, the Accelerate Framework is always used.)

Fixed Bugs

• Fixes the instability problems some users encountered when using the Intel MKL with RRO-8.0.2 on Windows and RStudio
• Fixes an issue with running packages that use tcl/tk within the RRO GUI (RRO.app) on OS X [Issue #107]

Known Issues

1. devtools::install_github may fail with the error "error in running command" on Ubuntu. To work around this issue, set options(unzip = 'internal') before calling install_githib. (See #37 and r-lib/devtools#406 )

Binary Downloads

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RRO-8.0.2-beta

This release of Revolution R Open fixes some bugs, and uses the same R engine as RRO 8.0.1. We recommend upgrading to this version if you are experiencing any of the issues listed in the “Fixed bugs” section.

Highlights

• Based on R-3.1.2
• On Windows and Linux platforms, use of the Intel MKL is now optional. Download the MKL Math Library installer separately and install to enable multi-threaded math on these platforms. (On Mac, the Accelerate Framework is always used.)

Fixed bugs

An issue with missing library files (libRlapack.dylib) on Mac has been resolved (#88)

Known issues

The RRO GUI (RRO.app) on OS X fails whenever you attempt to load a package that launches a tcltk window (for example, the HH package). To work around this issue, use R in a terminal window or another IDE such as RStudio for these packages. [Issue #107]

devtools::install_github may fail with the error "error in running command" on Ubuntu. To work around this issue, set options(unzip = 'internal') before calling install_githib. (See #37 and r-lib/devtools#406 )

With the MKL libraries installed, many commands cause a crash when using RRO within RStudio on Windows. To workaround this issue, you can replace your Rprofile.site file as follows: (Issue #119)

1. Create a back up copy of your Rprofile.site file found here: C:\Program Files\RRO\R-3.1.2\etc\Rprofile.site.
2. Download an updated copy of Rprofile.site.
3. Save the downloaded copy of Rprofile.site to the directory C:\Program Files\RRO\R-3.1.2\etc.
4. In the Copy File dialog, choose Copy and Replace.
5. In the Destination Folder Access Denied dialog, click Continue.
6. Restart RStudio.

Download the binaries

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RRO-8.0.1-beta3

Released only on Ubuntu platforms.
Updated Ubuntu builds to include tcl/tk.

Known issues

• After installing R on top of Revolution R Open, the Revolution R Open banner message may still appear when starting R. (Uninstall RRO before installing R to avoid this problem.)
• BioConductor fails to install on Ubuntu. This workaround will fix the problem:

cd /usr/lib64/RRO-8.0.1/R-3.1.2/lib/R/etc/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RevolutionAnalytics/RRO/master/R-src/etc/repositories

Now the following commands in RRO will successfully install BioConductor:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

Visit http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/download/ to download the binary distribution.

RRO-8.0.1-beta2

Released only for Mac OS X platforms.
Mac build now uses Mac Accelerate Framework instead of Intel MKL.

Known issues

• After installing R on top of Revolution R Open, the Revolution R Open banner message may still appear when starting R. (Uninstall RRO before installing R to avoid this problem.)
• On Mac, Some packages (e.g. igraph) may complain about a missing libRlapack.dylib . (#88)
  If you attempt to load an R package and get an error message stating that the BLAS and/or LAPACK math library is missing, then you will have to manually download, copy and link to that library. Here’s how:
  1. Download the BLAS library and the LAPACK library to your file system.

  2. Copy the libraries using these commands: 


     sudo cp libRblas.0.dylib /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Libraries
sudo cp libRlapack.dylib /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Libraries
  3. Link the BLAS library using this command: 
     sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Libraries/libRblas.0.dylib /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Libraries/libRblas.dylib

Visit http://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/download/ to download the binary distribution.

RRO-8.0.1-beta

Known issues

• Revolution R Open.app uses Mac Accelerators for performance, instead of the intended MKL. (The command-line application R uses MKL as intended. Using RRO from RStudio also uses the MKL.) For this reason, the Revobase package isn't available when running Revolution R Open.app. (fixed in v8.0.1-beta2)
• The installer is large on Mac. (This is because two R frameworks are installed: R.framework which uses Accelerators; and RRO.framework, which uses MKL.) (fixed in v8.0.1-beta2)
• After installing R on top of Revolution R Open, the Revolution R Open banner message may still appear when starting R. (Uninstall RRO before installing R to avoid this problem.)
• tcl/tk support is lacking in the Ubuntu build (#79) (fixed in v8.0.1-beta3)
• BioConductor fails to install on CentOS. This workaround will fix the problem:

cd /usr/lib64/RRO-8.0.1/R-3.1.2/lib64/R/etc/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RevolutionAnalytics/RRO/master/R-src/etc/repositories

Now the following commands in RRO will successfully install BioConductor:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

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8.0.0 beta

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