I just used migration assistant to move from a PPC G4 to an Intel based Mac
Book Pro, and I'm having all sorts of ghosts like this, too.
Try, in the named directory below,
sudo chmod +x Sweave.engine
You'll have to give it your user password, but that should set the executable
bit.
Best+
I haven't found an ideal answer to that. I'm not an Emacs user (I
prefer vim but not for R - don't even know if it's possible).
I've been using TeXShop with the Sweave interface. It took minor
tweaks to get it running, and in some senses, it helps to have the
commands I want to run
I might suggest looking into the possibility of using SQLite, which is
cross platform and free (in fact, it's public domain rather than GNU
etc.).
You can then set up an Excel spreadsheet to populate itself from the
SQLite db. http://www.sqlite.org. It's already available on the Mac -
There is a also a utility to fix permissions under Applications-
Utility-Disk Utility that will go through the library frameworks
and at the very least, let you know the permissions have changed and
what they should be, and at the very best, fix these.
Is it possible you installed the R
