This is just a “I’ll thank me later” post.

Basically, if you brew install R on MacOS Mojave and then want to install the tidyverse, then you’re in for a world of hurt… That is, unless you pay heed to the wisdom found here:

• https://github.com/adamhsparks/setup_macOS_for_R

I talked with some coworkers who just installed R from CRAN, or whatever. They said they had no issues… Gets me wondering: why did I brew install it? Or more importantly: after knowing they had no issues, why did I continue googling about the brew version? Am I leaving myself open for more pain by sticking with the Homebrew version?

This also reminded me that it sometimes feels like R is built on a house of cards – one change in your environment, and suddenly something doesn’t work. Anyway, I’m sure some of that has to do with my own ignorance :-p