HELP NEEDED: R binaries known to have memory profiling enabled

[HenrikBengtsson]

There are a few options for ready-to-install R binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows users. Which of these are built to have memory-profile enabled?

• The R Project / CRAN provides:

  • [ ] Linux
  • [x] Debian (also Ubuntu)
  • [ ] RedHat
  • [ ] Suse
  • [x] macOS
  • [x] Windows

• AT&T Research provides:

  • [x] macOS - nightly builds

If you've installed any of the above binaries, or binaries from some other source, please check whether

> capabilities("profmem")

returns TRUE or FALSE and report back here and I'll add the info to the vignette.

[artemklevtsov]

Linux distributions can be tested with docker.

[HenrikBengtsson]

• [x] Update vignette regarding macOS binaries from CRAN.

[HenrikBengtsson]

For the record, ?tracemem (which also reqs 'profmem' capabilities) says:

It is enabled in the CRAN macOS and Windows builds of R.