macOS brew support?

[caiohamamura]

Could we add in the guidelines to also include MacOS brew support?

The package names from there are really straightforward:

brew install gdal
brew install gsl
brew install hdf5
...

[caiohamamura]

If there is nothing against it I would love to contribute

[schloerke]

This would also allow rstudio/shiny to not have to need custom installation for mac.

      # https://stackoverflow.com/a/66568545/591574
      #> fatal error: 'X11/Intrinsic.h' file not found
      - name: Install Cairo macOS R devel dependency
        if: runner.os == 'macOS' && matrix.config.r == 'devel'
        run: |
          brew install libxt
      # xquartz and cairo are needed for Cairo package.
      # harfbuzz and fribidi are needed for textshaping package.
      - name: Mac systemdeps
        if: runner.os == 'macOS'
        run: |
          brew install --cask xquartz
          brew install cairo
          brew install harfbuzz fribidi

[schloerke]

Update of my latest installation script: https://github.com/rstudio/shinycoreci/blob/main/.github/actions/install-mac-deps/action.yaml

Having RSPM macOS support would be a big step forward in supporting operating systems outside of Linux

[glin]

Hi, sorry for the delay in response. Support for macOS system requirements and precompiled binary packages are on the roadmap for RSPM, but I can't say where right now. And although brew support could potentially be added to this repo, it would still require macOS support in RSPM to be fully useful (system requirements API support, binaries).

This feedback helps a lot though, so thank you, I've added this as additional votes to the feature request internally.

In case it helps, R-hub's sysreqsdb API and client package currently provide brew package names for a lot of packages.