Intel Macs are supported by the high-sierra build which works on any macOS >=10.13 including Big Sur. Important: The big-sur builds are compatible with the M1 arm-based Macs only.

Will R Work on Apple Silicon? (Information on the status of the port to Apple's new M1 architecture.) Nightly builds for macOS R framework Build.For more information about alternative OpenMP options (as in older version) see the openmp page of this site. Please make sure you remove any modifications to build flags from your home ( ~/.R) since no custom compilers are used anymore.

All dependent static libraries are available in the bin directory. Note that although M1 Macs can run the Intel build via Rosetta2 the native arm64 build is typically faster.

big-sur build supports arm64 Macs (M1) from macOS 11 (Big Sur) and higher.

high-sierra build supporting legacy Intel Macs from macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and higher.

Starting with R 4.0.0 we are building R using standard Apple tools (Xcode) and GNU Fortran (see tools for downloads and details). To learn more about the R software or download released versions, please visit All software on this page is strictly experimental and subject to acceptance of the supplied R license agreement and the disclaimer at the end of the page.

This is the new home for experimental binaries and documentation related to R for macOS. R for macOS Developers R for macOS Developers

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