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JeffZheng
JeffZheng

Reputation: 1405

Install multiple R versions on MacOS Catalina (version 10.15.2)

Before upgrading my MacBook Pro (early 2015) to macOS catalina 10.15.2, I can install multiple versions of R by first running some commands like this:

sudo pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.mavericks.fw.pkg
sudo pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.mavericks.GUI.pkg

sudo pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.mavericks.GUI64.pkg

But under Catalina 10.15.2, the above commands didn't work any more. The following error was shown:

No receipt for 'org.r-project.R.mavericks.fw.pkg' found at '/'.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 565

Answers (1)

Vasin
Vasin

Reputation: 31

I think you can go to Terminal and run pkgutil --pkgs to see what are the current names for the installed packages. Then you can follow the instructions here provided by Jake Price (super helpful).

For example, when I run pkgutil --pkgs on my MacOS Big Sur I see:

org.R-project.R.fw.pkg

If I use a wrong name in my Terminal, for example, org.r-project.R.fw.pkg, it will return:

No receipt for 'org.r-project.R.fw.pkg' found at '/'.

The forget command works when I use

sudo pkgutil --forget org.R-project.R.fw.pkg \.

You just have to find all 4 R files and use the forget command line for all of them.

Upvotes: 3

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