Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr in Aqua TclTk

2010-11-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Michael Barton wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to run Rcmdr in Aqua TclTk (e.g., ActiveStates TclTk 8.6)? Could any replies be sent to me directly since I don't subscribe to the list? Well, there is no 'TclTk 8.6' yet (it's a beta), but 8.5.9 worked last time

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr in Aqua TclTk

2010-11-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu On Nov 22, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Michael Barton wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to run Rcmdr in Aqua TclTk (e.g., ActiveStates TclTk 8.6)? Could

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R2.12 for Mac

2010-11-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Hi, On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Ivan Calandra ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de wrote: Dear users, I've seen a few problems on this list related to R2.12 on Mac. It looks to me that the Mac release is not really stable yet, or is it? Maybe it's

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R-sig-ME] lme4 missing from repositories?

2010-10-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Let me point out https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-July/007608.html This is not just a BLAS issue: I saw it with both vecLib and the reference BLAS. The lme4 code is doing exactly the same calculation for M2. and M2, but sometimes when it does that calculation the first time in

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Need help using Rmpi

2010-10-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Rmpi needs help (I'd say a bugfix) if your MPI is not lam (and you have not told us). See the Rmpi/README file, but the effect is more serious in 2.12.0 (and the maintainer was informed weeks ago). I don't understand your notation, but am assuming lines starting with # are both your comments

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with tcltk-Img

2010-10-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please build R from soures against ActiveTcl: this will then work. (Img contains compiled code.) I have such a build, and library(tcltk) Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done tclRequire(BWidget) Tcl 1.9.2 tclRequire(Img) Tcl 1.4.0.4 Simon has pointed out that it may conflict with R.app, but I

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Clear Workspace and .Rprofile

2010-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Ben Haller wrote: Hi all. I recently made myself a .Rprofile file, and I have just discovered two oddities with this in the R GUI. On the one hand, when I do Clear Workspace (from the Workspace menu) it doesn't clear out the .First function that my .Rprofile defined,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Help in creating a MacOSX binary of the mapdata package 2.1-3?

2010-08-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Jooil Kim wrote: Hello all, I recently noticed that the MacOSX binary of the mapdata package ver 2.1-3 wasn't available. The mapdata package is a useful extension for the maps package, providing higher-resolution map data. In contacting package maintainer Ray Brownrigg,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rsafd Mac Package

2010-08-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Why don't you ask the author for a source package? By (AFAICS) not providing source code for his package he is making life difficult for users. Only on Windows is it reasonably safe to distribute compiled code in DLLs -- everywhere else dynamic linking makes compiled code dependent on the OS

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Detecting GUI vs console?

2010-08-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Ben Haller wrote: Hi all. I've started using mclapply(), which doesn't work well in the GUI. I'd like to protect my code against mistakes by checking for whether I'm running under the GUI or the console. Is there a standard way to do this? See ?.Platform Thanks! Ben

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)

2010-08-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This package has compiled code under inst/ . That is only going to work for one architecture (unless a fat binary, which this is not). Hardly 'from source', and you need to sort this out so the package is source-only. On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Richard R. Liu wrote: I am trying to install a

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] lme4 + R 2.11.0 + mac unavailable

2010-07-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Let us be clear about what the issue seems to be. On i386 Mac (and not on x86_64 Mac) library(lme4) y - (1:20)*pi; x - (1:20)^2;group - gl(2,10) M2. - lmer (y ~ 1 + x + (1 + x | group)) M2 - lmer (y ~ x + ( x | group)) identical(fixef(M2), fixef(M2.)) usually fails the first time but if you

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tcl/tk problem.

2010-07-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, James Platt wrote: Hi People, I am quite new to R and I also apologize if this has come up before: Did you actually read http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ ? This para This package only contains the R framework, 32-bit GUI (R.app) and 64-bit GUI (R64.app). For

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RQuantLib missing binaries

2010-06-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Kyle Matoba wrote: Just wondering if there was any plans to get this up and running again: http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/RQuantLib-00install.html If not, I will compile it myself. You may not find it easy. The issue is that RQuantLib

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cairo device

2010-06-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, John Maindonald wrote: I have been trying to invoke cairoDevice on the Mac. Is there something wrong with my setup that is causing the API version mismatch? The message indicates that the cairoDevice package was compiled under a different version of R from the one you are

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem with readline when building R from source.

2010-05-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Rolf Turner wrote: On 22/05/2010, at 2:23 PM, Ben Madin wrote: Rolf, Given the weekend status, I'll hazard a guess that you want to add these as environment variables, so in an attempt to be monosyllabic: Assuming that you are using the bash shell (which has been

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type ‘x’

2010-05-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Christopher Bare wrote: Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to build and install an R package: Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : unsupported entry type ‘x’ I build the package like so: R --no-init-file CMD build mypackage Then try to install it:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Building AEM on PPC G3 running MacOS X 10.4

2010-05-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There is no Xcode 3.4 to my knowledge, and certainly not for 10.4. Perhaps you meant 2.4, in which case you need to update it. From memory (we no longer support Tiger binaries) Xcode 2.4.1 is needed and 2.5 is the last version for Tiger. Alterntively (and better), build R 2.11.0 from the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problems with X11 in R 2.11.0

2010-05-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Something is wrong with your system software. On my Leopard box: tystie% otool -L /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/modules/i386/R_X11.so ... /usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.0.0) So your /usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib is different

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] TinnR for Mac

2010-04-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Kent Manley wrote: 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). It certainly is. I've been using TeXShop with the Sweave interface. It took minor tweaks to get it running, and in some

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Font Families and Cairo

2010-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Your example is not reproducible, but png() does support transparent backgrounds and you did not specify one (by bg=transparent). The native method on a Mac would be png(type=quartz): have you tried that? Yes, there are known problems with cairo font handling on Macs: some of them have been

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Bitmap and undesired rotated figure

2010-02-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
First, this is not what 'bitmap' is intended for. R has a pdf() device, and on Macs quartz() can produce PDF: producing PostScript and converting it to PDF is cumbersome and you have given us no indication of why you did this (and it is not a good idea for other reasons: see the last para of

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with savePlot() and postscript under Snow Leopard

2010-02-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 13, 2010, at 5:04 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 13, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Hannes Nietnagel wrote: Thanks David for your reply! species.n - as.numeric(iris$Species) png(test.png) plot(iris, col = species.n) dev.off() That works fine

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] Sweave, lty = 3 line incorect in pdf output

2010-02-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that pdf does not 'display' anything: it writes a file. From ?pdf If you see problems with PDF output, do remember that the problem is much more likely to be in your viewer than in R. Try another viewer if possible. ... So which viewers are you using? I see no reason why

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] non-intel compiling; clarification

2010-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
My belief is that if you - build a single-architecture R from the sources - use that to test your packages it should work. If that is not an option, you can try R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch with the CRAN build of R (and if that works try R CMD check --install-args=--no-multiarch ). (As

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] udunits and RNetCDF ... simple or hard to get Mac version?

2010-01-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Simon Urbanek wrote: Bob, On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Robert Chatfield wrote: We have been using both ncdf and RNetCDF packages, and often enjoy the general approach offered by RNetCDF That package has not been available on the Mac for some time, it appears, ... but

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Example in body() help page, unexpected warning

2009-12-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 27, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Hmm, when I run example(body) I get body body(f) - as.call(c(as.name({), e)) with no backslash. And text help and the refman also have no backslash. So, how are you doing this? Cut

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Built on Mac, Installing on Windows - should this work?

2009-11-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 30/11/2009 11:10 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote: Hi R Mac Folks... A question about using Mac-built pkgs on the dreaded Windows machines. I have successfully checked, built and installed a package on my Mac. The package tarball is at

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Loop: plot does not update

2009-11-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
We don't have a reproducible example, nor the details asked for in the posting guide. But a likely explanation is that the windows() device (on Windows, if that is the OS your 'a PC' is running) is double-buffered (by default), and the quartz() is not. Thus rather than being a 'problem on

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Korean in quartz() device.

2009-10-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Dong-hyun Oh wrote: Dear R users, I run R-2.9.2 on the Snow Leopard 10.6.1 OS system. The default language of the OS is english. I want to plot a very simple graph with Korean letters on a quartz() device, but it fails. Korean Letters appear as being squares. We

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Can't get help.start() to work --- update.

2009-10-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 29/10/2009 1:07 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: After looking at the help for tools::startDynamicHelp and groping around considerably, I had a look at the Firefox Preferences. Going to Advanced -- Network -- Configure how Firefox connects to the the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 2.10.0 beta help functions

2009-10-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 16:01 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Hmm, I think you probably have pre-built html pages. Yes, that's likely. They used to be part of the installation but now are not. The fact that they are missing was useful to point out that I

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] package management system: Fink vs MacPorts?

2009-10-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:10 , Christian Kleiber wrote: Dear all, I am currently configuring a Mac Pro running SL. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-September/006468.html suggests there are issues with Fink. There are issues with Fink

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Issue with spelling in Aquamacs

2009-09-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, johannes rara wrote: I'm having the same problem with Aquamacs (I'm Aquamacs noob) and R. E.g. setwd(/Documents/Tämä) Error in setwd(/Documents/T\344m\344) : cannot change working directory Any ideas what's wrong? You've not (neither of you) told us the 'at a minimum'

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RODBC connection MS SQL with Actual driver

2009-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
By far the most likely cause is a bug in the ODBC driver. But can you not run this in a debugger and find out where the code is segfaulting: if in the driver that pinpoints the cause (and if in RODBC it could still be the driver returning incorrect structures). I have some of the Actual

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] OT: Snow Leopard and Application Compatibility

2009-08-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There are list members with access to the developer pre-release 'seeds', and I have seen 'Mac OS X 10.6' in one report (with a corresponding sessionInfo() output). So it seems very likely there is no problem with R, and most likely none with with R.app. (We are deferring upgrading until our

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] package compilation problems

2009-08-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Something has put /usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib on your system, and it is not universal. You should not need it: there is a system copy in /usr/lib. You are going to need to investigate this for yourself -- it is not an R issue and I've no idea what might have put libiconv there. Also

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Compiling R-2.9.1 from the source

2009-08-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Why not try to compile R-patched, aka 2.9.2 RC? It works for me on Mac OS X, but then 2.9.1 did too? On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Benilton Carvalho wrote: Hi, I was hoping to be to able to compile R-2.9.1 from the source as I've always done. './configure' always worked nice, but now it fails to

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problem with sweave

2009-06-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Christophe Dutang wrote: Dear list, I completely reinstalled mac os 10.5 few weeks ago, and since then I experienced some problem to use build vignettes. Following the discussion in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-November/005578.html I put the R texmf

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] XML pachage on mac osx leopard

2009-06-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
to add frameworks to the R search-lib path ? Nothing special about R: you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLIB_LIBRARY_PATH depending on what you are doing (and which OS). Il giorno 14/giu/09, alle ore 23:58, Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto: Which version of package XML is this? For 2.5.0 at least

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] XML pachage on mac osx leopard

2009-06-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Which version of package XML is this? For 2.5.0 at least, you need a more recent version of libxml2 (as the log you show does warn you). The CRAN install log at http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/XML-00install.html shows the same problem for XML 2.5.1. i also

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Query MS SQL Server DB using RODBC from OS X

2009-06-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The original message was posted to this list twice on June 4. Mainly for the archives, see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-June/006219.html for three rounds of answers to the other posting. On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Don MacQueen wrote: There are others better at ODBC than I. None

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problems installing rgdal on mac osx 10.5.6

2009-05-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think you should ask on the R-sig-Geo list: its arhives contain recent entries about building rgdal on Mac OS X. one of which I have used to give you a hint inline below. On Tue, 26 May 2009, Viscarra Rossel, Raphael (CLW, Black Mountain) wrote: Hello, I am trying to install rgdal on my

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.9.0 on Leopard 10.5.7 problems?

2009-05-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I've seen no R issues at all with 10.5.7, using the CRAN binary or my own builds. On Tue, 26 May 2009, Marc Schwartz wrote: On May 26, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Luca Scrucca wrote: Dear R-Mac-users, a couple of weeks ago a message appeared in this list which mentioned a potential problem with R

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem with R CMD check, pdflatex

2009-05-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote: Michael, CRAN R comes configured with MacTeX, see also https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-April/006129.html One of the problems is that PATH settings on OS X differ between LS-started apps, shells etc., so it is in general problematic to

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem with R CMD check, pdflatex

2009-05-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Ji-Ping Wang wrote: I found a strange error while I used ?R CMD check? for package in Mac OS X Leopard. In the current version, R. 2.9, it always returns an error message related to ?pdflatex?. Something like ?LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Reminder: Please test the 2.9.0 beta/rc binaries!

2009-04-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is not a bug (and nothing to do with the subject line). You need to set 'ylab', e.g. p2 - list(x=rnorm(500), main='bug?', col='orange', type='l', ylab=) Why? Because the default is the deparse of 'x', and that is a long string. On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Hi, On Apr

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Is R more heavy on memory or processor?

2009-03-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 14:55 , Booman, M wrote: Dear all, I am going to purchase a Power Mac (a new one, with Nehalem processor) for my R-based microarray analyses. I use mainly Bioconductor packages, and a typical dataset would consist of 50

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R GUI Cannot load Interface Builder

2009-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well, the error seems clear: your R session has too many files open. Now most OSes do have limited tables of files per process, but the numbers are not small: on Mac OS I believe it is 256 (that's what bash reports on mine): 1024 is a common value for other Unixen. You could try

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Setting quartz() as default in ESS

2009-03-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
See ?options, look at 'device'. This is getting to be an FAQ On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Christopher David Desjardins wrote: Hi, I am running CarbonEmacs and calling R from ESS. When I graph data the default device in ESS is X11() and I'd prefer it to call quartz() instead. Is there a way

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] mac-builder

2009-03-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
. Thanks, --sundar On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: Hi, all, Uwe Ligges has a nice tool for creating R binaries for Windows. http://win-builder.r-project.org/ Is there an equivalent for Mac to create

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] mac-builder

2009-03-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: Hi, all, Uwe Ligges has a nice tool for creating R binaries for Windows. http://win-builder.r-project.org/ Is there an equivalent for Mac to create the tgz file? It is currently tricky: packages built on MacOS by you or I under 2.8.1 are likely

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] X11 missing? ... was Re: [R] rgl persp3d bounding box color problem.

2009-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, David Winsemius wrote: I tried to install the current version of rgl on R-forge from source from the 64 bit R-GUI and get this error during installation : entire listing copied below checking for X... no configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] X11 missing? ... was Re: [R] rgl persp3d bounding box color problem.

2009-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It looks to me as if this is a path issue, as inside the R.app libpng-config is not found. On my system it is in /usr/local/bin. And I think the X configuration expects to find /usr/X11/bin/xmkmf (R's version certainly does). So I suggests putting /usr/local/bin and /usr/X11/bin in your path.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] X11 missing? ... was Re: [R] rgl persp3d bounding box color problem.

2009-03-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Rob Goedman wrote: David, I did notice in your log.txt file the following message: ld warning: in /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.dylib, missing required architecture x86_64 in file And that is the problem. Simon supplies a libfreetype.a that has tystie% file

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

2009-03-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Some other things that might be relevant the saved workspace ~/.Rdata the saved history ~/.Rhistory any personal library. One piece of advice that often works is to start R with --vanilla (e.g. from a terminal 'R --vanilla'): if that works it indicates a problem in one of the startup files

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

2009-03-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: It is considered extremely bad behavior to report something like this as bug (see recent post on R-devel). Yes it is a nuisance, but thankfully we seem to have solved the problem in the meantiime. The one thing I at least have learnt is that

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

2009-03-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Steve Lianoglou wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: It is considered extremely bad behavior to report something like this as bug (see recent post on R-devel). Yes it is a nuisance, but thankfully

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

2009-03-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
angry are the serial offenders. Also, please be patient: the experts are in short supply: Simon Urbanek is currently travelling, I will be next month Brian Ripley Thanks again, Mary On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] How to Set Default Device to Quartz

2009-03-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, ivo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear R-experts: I would like to set the default drawing device to be quartz, not X11. I understand that quartz() accomplishes this, but it also draws an empty window. Assigning quartz to .Device does not do the trick, either. Of course: see what

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ?? Build/install x86_64 R under user home dir (non-root) on Mac OS X

2009-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You still sent HTML mail, and we got a nigh-unreadable version with lots of blank lines. Your OS *is* for i386: a properly functioning 64-bit buils on MacIntel reports sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-02-27 r48020) i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 locale:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] .C interface to R: problem with compilation

2009-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What problem? Your email has no Re: in the subject and appears in a thread of its own on https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2009-February/thread.html . We don't have a clue what you mean. Also, much of the time when people say they have 'the same exact problem' it is not actually

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] update graphics component without redrawing whole plot

2009-02-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, iuhz7j...@sneakemail.com wrote: Regarding adding Sys.sleep() call: it does make things smoother, but it also defeats the purpose of having live-updating graphics. (Adding a 0.1-second delay to each of the 10^6 simulation timesteps would be counterproductive). I could

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] update graphics component without redrawing whole plot

2009-02-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, iuhz7j...@sneakemail.com wrote: Yes, I guess I was was using 'device' imprecisely -- I'm not so familiar with the technicalities. Is it correct to say, then, that anything that uses 'grid' is an R device and will necessarily have to redraw to edit existing graphical

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Case distinction on a Mac.

2009-02-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I am wondering if case-insensitive file systems are really such a problem. Because they are the norm on Windows, R is set up to cope with them and I chose to have my Macs set up with the stanadard file systems so I'm more likely to see problems if they occur. The only time I have ever seen

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] update graphics component without redrawing whole plot

2009-02-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
That still redraws, and it flickers visibly on my (latest model with nVidia graphics) MacBook Air (on both quartz() and X11()). R graphics devices use an 'ink and paper' model, so it is impossible to remove (or move) elements. All you can do is repaint background on sections of the plot and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Can't load MASS when using Mac GUI.

2009-02-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You are tryig to use MASS built for R 2.7.x on 2.8.1. Looks like /Users/rturner/Rlib needs updating. On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Rolf Turner wrote: If I start R by clicking on the R icon on the ``dock'' then I am unable to load the MASS package. I get: library(MASS) Error in dyn.load(file,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgl, Leopard, 64 bit

2009-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Matthew Cohen wrote: Looking through the archives, I see that the developers of rgl don't have access to a 64 bit Mac, and are waiting for someone else to take the initiative and make an appropriate patch. Unfortunately, I think this is beyond my abilities. Has anyone

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] image() to Rplot.pdf

2009-01-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Paul J. Ossenbruggen wrote: Hi Simon, Thank you for the information about the R image rendering issue in Preview and Acrobat. I am happy to learn that my problem is not related to R and Quartz. As you suggested, I zoomed in and out with Preview but the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] data frames with å, ä, and ö (=non-ASCII-characters) from windows to mac os x

2009-01-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You need to use CP1252 not UTF-8 to read the data. It tells you how to do so on the help page ... under 'encoding'. So something like A - read.table(con - file(myfile, encoding=CP1252));close(con) Please don't cross-post ... I am being brief because you did. On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Gustaf

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] data frames with å, ä , and ö (=non-ASCII-characters) from win dows to mac os x

2009-01-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, David Winsemius wrote: Reading the help page for Sys.get/set/locale: Attempts to change the character set (by Sys.setlocale(LC_TYPE, ), if that implies a different character set) during a session may not work and are likely to lead to some confusion. Value A character

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] data frames with å, ä , and ö (=non-ASCII-characters) from win dows to mac os x

2009-01-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, David Winsemius wrote: On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: You need to use CP1252 not UTF-8 to read the data. It tells you how to do so on the help page ... under 'encoding'. So something like A - read.table(con - file(myfile, encoding=CP1252));close

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R CMD check / texi2dvi issues

2009-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
But the R-devel log will be the informative one. On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Robin Hankin wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Robin Hankin wrote: Dear List MacOSX 10.5.5 R-2.8.1 / R-2.9.0 I'm having difficulty with vignettes under Mac OS X. Take the partitions package

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Quartz device, font family selection.

2009-01-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Charly wrote: Hi All Happy new year ! On 10.5.6, R version R 2.8.1, I'm trying to change the family font in quartz device using the family option. You could try using family= on the plot commands, or (base graphics) par(family=Courier) or gpar(fontfamily=Courier) in

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error loading tcltk library

2009-01-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Ivan Alves wrote: Dear Simon, Please excuse my confusion, but I am pretty certain that Tcl/Tk is installed in Leopard by default (I certainly do not recall installing Tcl/Tk myself). In fact, when I run ./configure in the source Aqua Tcl/Tk, not X11 Tcl/Tk. directory

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Package installation: setting default library

2009-01-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What is 'somehat obscure' about (?install.packages) See Also: 'installed.packages', 'remove.packages' See 'download.file' for how to handle proxies and other options to monitor file transfers. ? Indeed, where would you expect to find information about downloading files if not

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] bash R: command not found

2008-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, pietro bulian wrote: Dear all, I'm a new user of MAC/Unix. I want R on a powerbook MAC with OS 10.3.9. How come a new user has a long-obsolete OS? Following instructions I attempted to compile last version of R (2.8). But it was unsuccessful (problems with dlyb).

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problem with SHLIB

2008-12-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I think you need to update your Xcode. What version is it, and how does it compare with the FAQ's prescriptions? On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Thibault Helleputte wrote: Hello, I'm using R 2.8.0 on a Macbook Pro running Tiger on it. I have a simple C file named hello.c and when I try to generate

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] lme4 fails to load in R GUI 2.8.0

2008-12-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
on the 13th. When this gets built I'd be happy to test it on R 2.8.0 as the current version is at -27. Thanks! Chris On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.ukwrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Christopher David Desjardins wrote: It was suggested to update my lme4 package

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] lme4 fails to load in R GUI 2.8.0

2008-12-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Christopher David Desjardins wrote: It was suggested to update my lme4 package to the lastest version at CRAN. After installing it I get the following error: library(lme4) Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : function 'cholmod_start' not provided by package

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Lapack errors on Mac but not on Linux

2008-12-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Is this an issue with the Apple-supplied Lapack? Or the Apple-supplied BLAS. You have not told us how R was built on your machine, but if this was the CRAN build you have a choice of BLAS. (See the list archives, but AFAIR, you can swap links between libRblas.0dylib and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Lapack errors on Mac but not on Linux

2008-12-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gad Abraham wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Is this an issue with the Apple-supplied Lapack? Or the Apple-supplied BLAS. You have not told us how R was built on your machine, but if this was the CRAN build you have a choice of BLAS. (See the list archives, but AFAIR

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] .... Matrix broken on Mac...

2008-12-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Martin Maechler wrote: This was on the wrong mailing list (R-SIG-mixed-models), but I strongly believe belongs here. As one of the two maintainers of Matrix, I'm very interested to here if really there are still/again problems with the *R-forge* (or CRAN) version of Matrix

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] .... Matrix broken on Mac...

2008-12-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Dec 3, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Martin Maechler wrote: This was on the wrong mailing list (R-SIG-mixed-models), but I strongly believe belongs here. As one of the two maintainers of Matrix, I'm very

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] installing package from local directory

2008-11-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You are trying to install a Linux binary package. On the CRAN Mac distribution, set type=source for a source package. On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Graham Smith wrote: I am trying to install DASPlusR, which isn't in the repository, so the package needs to be downloaded from CRAN. It's not on CRAN,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 'sweave.sty' not found

2008-11-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Denis Chabot wrote: Dear Prof Ripley, Le 08-11-15 à 11:30, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Denis Chabot wrote: Hi, I often used Sweave in the last few years, but today I could not get it to work. What is 'it'? What exactly did you run (in R

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 'sweave.sty' not found

2008-11-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Denis Chabot wrote: Hi, I often used Sweave in the last few years, but today I could not get it to work. What is 'it'? What exactly did you run (in R or elsewhere)? I got this in the LaTeX console: LaTex error: file 'sweave.sty' not found. The filename should be

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] Rd2dvi problem.

2008-11-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Rolf Turner wrote: On 10/11/2008, at 7:54 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: R_LATEXCMD is defined in R_HOME/etc/Renviron (sourced by R CMD), and conditionally re-defined in Rd2dvi. On a sub-architecture build such as the CRAN MacOS distribution

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] Rd2dvi problem.

2008-11-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Rolf Turner wrote: On 10/11/2008, at 7:54 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: R_LATEXCMD is defined in R_HOME/etc/Renviron (sourced by R CMD), and conditionally re-defined in Rd2dvi. On a sub-architecture build such as the CRAN MacOS distribution that will be R_HOME/etc/arch

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cannot load RMySQL

2008-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Felix Lamp wrote: Hello, after upgrading to R 2.8.0 I cannot load the package RMySQL anymore. I updated the package but it still does not work (see below). You installed a version built for R 2.7.x. Where did you get yours from? Under the CRAN build of R, you need

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 64-bit build of R crashes while idle

2008-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Hi, Early last week, I installed the 64-bit leopard build for R provided here: http://r.research.att.com/ I've realized that when R.app is running in the background (and sitting idle), it eventually beach-balls. When I switch over to see what's

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 64 bit - Installing packages from source

2008-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that R 2.8.0 and Bioconductor 2.3 postdate the messages you quote. On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Steven McKinney wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Lianoglou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/6/2008 1:29 PM To: Steven McKinney Cc: R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] infinity may be represented as degree symbol, on x11 device.

2008-10-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Yes, it is specific to you (or some Macs). I'm not sitting in front of my iMac, but when it displays on my Linux box, the result is fine. There are several variants of x11(): I am assuming this is the CRAN build and type=cairo? I tested the latter (and my self-build), and it should be

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Package Manager/Installer

2008-10-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 20, 2008, at 13:34 , Mollie Brooks wrote: Hi Dave, I've also had problems with the Package manager. I haven't figured out how to use packages that I've downloaded directly from the cran website. It's not clear if these are source or binary

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 'R CMD build mypkg' fails to 'make clean' when mypkg has a Makefile

2008-10-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Herve Pages wrote: Hi, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Herve Pages wrote: Hi, This problem has already been reported here more than 1 year ago by Brian J. Lopes: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2007-May/003863.html [...] Are there any

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 'R CMD build mypkg' fails to 'make clean' when mypkg has a Makefile

2008-10-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Herve Pages wrote: Hi, This problem has already been reported here more than 1 year ago by Brian J. Lopes: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2007-May/003863.html Maybe, but (AFAICS, see also below) no one submitted a patch to the appropriate list (r-devel) nor

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] quartz bug?

2008-10-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
pdf() is not involved when you save from a quartz() device. There certainly is a difference, a completely different R graphics device involving MacOS system calls is used by quartz(). On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, David Airey wrote: I'm having problems printing a PDF via LaTeX that was created in R

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tilde paths cause crash in R on Mac

2008-09-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It is not that there is a tilde in the name, but that the filename is invalid (nothing said that tilde would be interpreted, and R's help usually does when this is the case). The crash is AFAIK already fixed in 2.7.2 patched (and R-devel does interpret tildes on Mac and Windows where it did

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error with update.packages()

2008-09-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
is generated, implying that they have not been updated. Any other suggestions? Would uninstalling R and then reinstalling it help? Brant - On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Try another mirror: this is not the first time we've seen problems at www.ibiblio.org

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tilde expansion in graphics devices

2008-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Tim Bergsma wrote: Hi. Use of tilde in filenames passed to graphics drivers crashes R on Mac (2.7.1.45970/i386/9.4.0/MacBookPro3,1/2/4). This is true in the GUI as well as on the command line. For example... png(~/myplot.png) plot(cos) dev.off() ...causes a crash.

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