Hi Simon, I am not sure if you saw the email that I responded to that David sent. In that response I used the link he sent me. In that response I used the versions listed on the link.
And described exactly what I did that resulted in it freezing up. I hope this is clear. If it is not, I am happy to provide whatever additional information would be useful. I think the r-team does amazing work and I would be happy to help in whatever way I can. In case you missed that email, I have copied it below. The referenced R installs are from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/base/ and the two are R-2.10.0.dmg and R-2.9.2.dmg Cheers! Francis Hi David, I know I was being vague when I posted but I had gotten frustrated with R and deleted it hours before and I was not sure what the version was at the time. But now I am. Version R-2.10.0 worked on startup and worked when I typed >1:10 however it froze when I typed >f() without f being defined. There were other functions that caused it to freeze, but I did not keep track of all of them. So I tried R-2.10.0 and it froze again under identical circumstances. I went to the next oldest version R-2.9.2 and it froze on the last stage of the installation process. I forced it to quit and went to the application folder and so far it is stable. If it has problems, I will just keep going back to older releases. Thank you for your help, Francis On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > Francis, > > On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Francis Smart wrote: > >> Dear R people, >> >> I am running OS 10.5.8 on my PowerBook G4 and unfortunately it will >> not allow me to upgrade to Snow Leopard, because it does not run an >> Intel Chip. >> > > FWIW that makes no difference as we don't build anything specially for Snow > Leopard. And, yes, ppc is no longer supported by Apple since 10.6. > > >> I have downloaded a version of R and it does not appear to be stable. > > Can you tell us which version, please? I know that you already answered that > you're happy with 2.9.2 but unless you tell us there may be more users > sharing your frustration ... I don't have any ppc machines anymore so I > cannot easily test that ... > > >> I have thought about about installing Linux to ensure a stable build >> but unfortunately I bought the PowerBook G4 used and I did not come >> with install disks. The Leopard install disks I do have refuse to run >> on an non-Intel machine. So if I installed Linux, that would mean >> that I would have to uninstall OS X and I probably would not be able >> to reinstall it. >> >> So I guess I am wondering if anybody has a build of R that they know >> is stable on 10.5.8. Also, I am sure there are other potential >> solutions that I have not thought of. >> > > R is supposed to be stable but there was one big change in the R.app GUI for > R 2.10 which may be the culprit (but then there were some GUI mismatch > reports in the Tiger build so possibly the Leopard build is fine...). The > real question is whether you installed the Tiger or the Leopard build of R > (both work on your machine). Once we know we can try to trace that back ... > > Cheers, > Simon > > >> Any recommendations? >> >> Thank you for your time, >> Francis >> -- >> Francis Smart >> (202) 540-8108 primary >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Francis Smart -------------------- PhD Student - Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University (406) 223-8108 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
