Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-alpha on SL system

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Urbanek
aqua http/ftp sockets TRUE TRUEFALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE libxml fifo clediticonv NLS profmemcairo TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUEFALSEFALSE On Oct 11, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Roger, from your logs

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

2009-10-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
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 if you try to mix Fink and native system

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

2009-10-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
Seth, On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:18 , Seth Falcon wrote: Hi Christian, Unless you are doing development with R I would second Simon's suggestion to use the pre-packaged R binary. Just to clarify -- I wasn't questioning building R from sources -- I was questioning why anyone would use Fink or

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] link a shared library of a r-package

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:19 , Christoph Hofer wrote: Dear list I wrote some c-code and would like to link it with the shared library RandomFields.so of the RandomFields package. That's something you cannot do in general, because installed packages are just shared objects, not

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [Rd] Mac R spinning wheel with Package Manager (PR#14005)

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
(moving to the proper mailing list: R-SIG-Mac - this is not a bug so far!) James, this look like your internet access is stalling R -- it's not really R freezing but your internet. Try using a different mirror and/or check your internet connection. Cheers, Simon On Oct 13, 2009, at

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

2009-10-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Peter Cowan wrote: I just installed the nightly from r.research.att.com called R 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-13) for leopard using the pkg installer. When I use ?plot or help(plot) the help window opens, but is blank. And, I get this warning: ?plot Warning message: In

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

2009-10-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Peter Cowan wrote: I just installed the nightly from r.research.att.com called R 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-13) for leopard using the pkg installer. When I use ?plot or help(plot) the help window opens, but is blank. And, I get this warning:

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

2009-10-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 15, 2009, at 17:00 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 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

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tiff output on Mac

2009-10-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 15, 2009, at 13:08 , Michael Denslow wrote: Dear R Mac folks, I have not seen a thread on this so I thought I would get some input regarding tiff output on a Mac. I am currently running OS 10.6.1 and R 2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32- bit (5464). I realize that the easiest way to save

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tiff output on Mac

2009-10-16 Thread Simon Urbanek
major 2 minor 9.2 year 2009 month 08 day24 svn rev49384 language R version.string R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) Thanks, --sundar On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 13

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0 beta -- please test!

2009-10-20 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 20, 2009, at 5:16 , Michael Kubovy wrote: On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Dear Mac users, please consider testing R 2.10.0 beta *before* the release. First, we have now an automated installer generator system for Leopard and Snow Leopard (incl. 64-bit R), so

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] question about installing from source

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Mark Daniel Ward wrote: I am trying to install the Rcartogram library. I've never had trouble doing this before, but I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, which may be causing a problem. I do have FFTW3 installed on my machine, and I've never had trouble

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] question about installing from source

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
Roger, On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:04 , Roger Koenker wrote: worked for me on a SL machine yes, but you're using 64-bit R, however, Mark used 32-bit (look at his arch in the output and yours) -- that's the difference. Dynamic or static plays no role (in fact static has usually better

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] question about installing from source

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
FWIW a 4-way universal FFTW is now available from http://r.research.att.com/libs/ so you don't have to compile your own (just make sure you delete previous dynamic builds if you had any!). It works with both 32-bit and 64-bit R on both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Cheers, Simon On Oct 20,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0 beta -- please test!

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 20, 2009, at 15:20 , Peter Cowan wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: Dear Mac users, please consider testing R 2.10.0 beta *before* the release. First, we have now an automated installer generator system for Leopard and Snow

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0 beta -- please test!

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
David, On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:09 , David Winsemius wrote: I On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 20, 2009, at 15:20 , Peter Cowan wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: Dear Mac users, please consider testing R

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R crash on startup in OS X

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 21, 2009, at 15:55 , Jordan Thomson wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for the quick reply. The Framework folder and contents are all there at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9, including the library file (libR.dylib). Are you really sure? Run this in Terminal: file

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R crash on startup in OS X

2009-10-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Jordan Thomson wrote: Hi guys, I've started from scratch with R 2.9.2 and now have R.app in my Applications folder. The Framework folder is in the proper place and I can find the libR.dylib file using Finder. However, when I run the command in Terminal that

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Increase heap space of openNLP

2009-10-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
the R GUI. Thanks, Richard On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:41:51 -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Richard R. Liu wrote: I'm not sure whether this question belongs in this SIG or in the R- help mail list. I'm running R 2.9.2 Leopard version on a MacBook Pro 17 early 2009 laptop

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] broken link

2009-10-27 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:18 , Konis Kjell wrote: The link to the tools directory in the description of R-2.10.0.pkg is missing an s (the linky bit, not the displayed bit) on http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx Thanks, fixed. Simon ___ R-SIG-Mac

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0

2009-10-27 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:11 , Luca Scrucca wrote: Dear Simon, first of all I would like to thank you for providing the Mac binary package for the latest version of R. It works ok on my two years old MBP with OSX 10.5.8. As mentioned in the web page the GUI installed are two, 32-bit GUI

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem upgrading to R version 2.10.0.

2009-10-27 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 27, 2009, at 16:43 , Rolf Turner wrote: First I downloaded the Mac binary from CRAN, but when I double clicked on install icon it told me ``Couldn't open R-2.10.0.pkg. This package type requires Mac OS X 10.5.'' I guess I don't have 10.5. Click on the Apple icon on the left-top

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Building from source problems.

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Urbanek
only speculate. Cheers, Simon On Oct 28, 2009, at 20:21 , Rolf Turner wrote: QUESTION 1: === Yesterday I sent out a cri de coeur in respect of not being able to build R 2.10.0 from source on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11). Simon Urbanek informed me that I could get a working R 2.10.0 from

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

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Urbanek
Rolf, On Oct 28, 2009, at 23:39 , Rolf Turner wrote: On 29/10/2009, at 2:39 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 28/10/2009 9:04 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: Under my newly installed version of R, 2.10.0, help.start() refuses to perform. When I issue the command I get a ``Host is unreachable''

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Building from source problems.

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Urbanek
Rolf, On Oct 29, 2009, at 16:48 , Rolf Turner wrote: On 30/10/2009, at 3:51 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Rolf, you could save yourself a lot of trouble if you just looked at CRAN -- you'd notice that I have actually released an official 2.10.0 binary just for you ;). Well thank

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

2009-10-29 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 29, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On 30/10/2009, at 4:10 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: snip from the command line (in the window opened by the GUI). I get an error: Loading required package: mgcv Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : unable to load

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Nehalem

2009-10-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
Anirban, On Oct 30, 2009, at 10:30 , Anirban Mukherjee wrote: Hi Simon, I found some threads in which you discussed the Nehalem processors vis-a-vis speedups in R (on Mac). I have to decide between getting a Core 2 Duo 3.33 ghz and the Core i7 2.8 ghz iMac. The critical part of my code

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] filled.contours and quartz() problem

2009-10-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:05 , Joerg van den Hoff wrote: has someone tried `filled.contours' with a `quartz' device? for me, contrary to using `X11' the display is corrupted by visible rendering of all contour lines (looks as if `contour' output is overlayed on the image with a thin line width

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Building from source problems.

2009-11-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
, which Simon Urbanek built especially for me, and which eschews the mtune=core2 flag. With this binary I can now build spatstat from source without hiccups. (Thank you Simon!) So I guess I don't really have *any* problems as it stands. I'd just kind of like to get

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.0 packages and html doc

2009-11-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Frédéric Dupont wrote: Hi, I have just installed R 2.10.0. It seems that binary libraries have an empty html folder (except the 00Index.html file). Is this normal? Yes, static html help is no longer installed by default since it's not used anymore (see R's

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] *** caught bus error *** address 0x114382544, cause 'non-existent physical address'

2009-11-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
Richard, in order to track this down, please start R64, type Sys.getpid() and note down the number. Then in a separate window open Terminal and type gdb Then on the gdb console (it will just say (gdb)) type attach n where n is the number from above. It will do something for a while and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] package installation issues

2009-11-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Nov 24, 2009, at 15:41 , Michael Barnett wrote: Hi everyone - I'm having the same package installation issues with igraph, despite installing Xcode. I don't really know what to do. I'll paste the bug I get below - is there an easy fix for my problem? It seems to be an issue with the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] package installation issues

2009-11-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
/library/ igraph/libs/x86_64/igraph.so Expected in: dynamic lookup Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'igraph' Error: package/namespace load failed for 'igraph' * -Michael On Nov 24, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: install.packages(igraph,,http://r.urbanek.info

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] package installation issues

2009-11-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
need 64-bit just use 32-bit R in the meantime (R --arch i386) -- that will work. Thanks, Simon On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Michael Barnett wrote: Simon - I appreciate your help very much. Unfortunately I did exactly what you said

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] package installation issues

2009-11-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
, Simon Urbanek wrote: Ok, I found the problem -- it's GMP. We have only 32-bit GMP on the build machine so igraph is trying to use it but doesn't get it for 64-bit. So this is really not related to the Fortran issue after all. I'll put 64-bit GMP on the CRAN machine tomorrow and keep you

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installation

2009-11-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Henrique wrote: Dear R users, When I try to install R I get R.app and R64.app. I would like to keep only one version of R in my Mac (Snow Leopard). I would like to keep only the 64 bit version, but I don't like the name R64.app. So I need to install the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Interacting with R GUI app from another Cocoa app

2009-11-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
Guillaume, On Nov 29, 2009, at 10:29 , Guillaume Chapron wrote: Hello, I have a standalone simulation model written in Objective C/Cocoa. Once the simulations are done, I would like to send the output (a large C array) to R.app for further analysis and plotting. I'm able to launch R.app

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

2009-11-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
Bryan, there are several issues, but let's start with the most hopeful one: install.packages(pkgs = ChemoSpec_1.31.tar.gz, repos = NULL, type = source) * installing *source* package 'ChemoSpec' ... ** R ** data ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Warning in library(pkg,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] make install fails

2009-12-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
Kasper, On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:46 , Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: Fresh R-devel (as well as R-2.10) on a fresh install of Snow Leopard (not an upgrade). Using Xcode 3.2.1. Building in a separate directory from the source. ../R-devel-src/configure $OPTIONS make sudo make install The sudo

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] make install fails

2009-12-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
system ;). I have put a guard about such strange framework setup in the R-devel, just in case. Cheers, Simon On Dec 1, 2009, at 12:13 , Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: On Dec 1, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: ls -l /Library/Frameworks/R.framework ls -l /Library/Frameworks

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:48, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] OS 10.5.8 Compatibility

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
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

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cairo 'Out of memory' error

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:55 PM, John Maindonald wrote: I am using R from ESS, with X11 as the default graphics device. In due course, when I run a function that tries to open a new graphics window, I get the message: g10.6() Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox. Good point. We're intentionally overriding the browser option in the R.app GUI because

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] OS 10.5.8 Compatibility

2009-12-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
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

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] .libPaths(new) stopped working in 2.10

2009-12-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 6, 2009, at 14:45 , David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: I used to have the following in my .Rprofile: if (length(.libPaths())==1) .libPaths(paste(Sys.getenv(HOME),/Library/R/,paste(R.version

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] .libPaths(new) stopped working in 2.10

2009-12-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 6, 2009, at 14:45 , David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: I used to have the following in my .Rprofile: if (length(.libPaths())==1) .libPaths(paste(Sys.getenv(HOME),/Library/R/,paste(R.version

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Changing font size for R on Mac

2009-12-09 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 8, 2009, at 17:06 , David Kaplan wrote: Hi all, My apologies for such a simple question. I have a new Mac and I want to make a permanent change to the font size for R. I simply don't know how to change the size of the font or make it permanent. cntl - + is not the answer.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] quartz.save bug

2009-12-09 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 9, 2009, at 6:41 , Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: Hi, I've just encountered a tiny bug in the function quartz.save. It doesn't expand e.g. a leading ~ in the file name. Well, it's not documented to do so - it's really just pass-through for quartz() so if anything this is a wishlist

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] quartz.save bug

2009-12-09 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:53 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: On Dec 9, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Well, it's not documented to do so - it's really just pass-through for quartz() so if anything this is a wishlist item for the quartz

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] .libPaths(new) stopped working in 2.10

2009-12-10 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 9, 2009, at 21:51 , David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Dec 6, 2009, at 14:45 , David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: I used to have the following in my .Rprofile: if (length(.libPaths())==1) .libPaths

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Internationalization of the R.app

2009-12-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 12, 2009, at 8:05 AM, huang min wrote: HI, I am a new MAC user. I just installed R. Some error message occurs: During startup - Warning messages: 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using C 2: Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using C 3: Setting LC_TIME failed, using C 4: Setting LC_MESSAGES

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] new raster image support in r-devel

2009-12-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 13, 2009, at 21:47 , Paul Murrell wrote: Hi In the *development* version of R, there are two new functions, grid.raster() and grid.cap(), in the 'grid' package, which draw (and capture) raster (bitmap) images (see http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html) There has

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] new raster image support in r-devel

2009-12-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
/src/library/grDevices/src/devQuartz.c:1033 #2 0x00cab6dc in L_cap () at ../../../../../../R-devel/src/library/ grid/src/grid.c:2851 I'll nave a look after I'm done with the 2.10.1 release... Cheers, Simon On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:04 , Simon Urbanek wrote: On Dec 13, 2009, at 21:47 , Paul

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] new raster image support in r-devel

2009-12-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:25 , Paul Murrell wrote: Hi Simon Urbanek wrote: Oops, I was so focused on things breaking in SL that I missed that this one breaks on Leopard only :) Anyway, yes, the exact same binary breaks on Leopard: Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x168c8001

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error exec program in 64 bit R from terminal

2009-12-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
Matthew, On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Matthew Pittinsky wrote: Hello. My apologies in advance if this has been asked and answered, but I can't seem to find the information I need. I am trying to run an R program from the terminal. As a trivial example, I run R --arch=x86_64 CMD

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cairoDevice package on mac os install failure

2009-12-20 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 20, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Mark Heckmann wrote: Hi all, the cairoDevice package is not available as a binary on CRAN right now. I tried to compile it from source, which renders the following: mark-heckmanns-macbook:~ markheckmann$ R CMD INSTALL cairoDevice_2.10.tar.gz *

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Weird keyboard/buffering issue in Mac Client in 10.6

2009-12-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Neil Kodner wrote: When using up-arrow to retrieve the last executed command, or browse my history, each command becomes suffixed with a few lines worth of spaces. It's annoying having to backspace over this many spaces or manually move the cursor to perform

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-2.10-branch for PPC64

2010-01-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 5, 2010, at 21:12 , Steven McKinney wrote: I see today that the R-2.10-branch build at r.research.att.com shows Status: ppc64: OK I downloaded and installed R-2.10-branch-leopard.pkg (Version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-01-04 r50887)) but the R64.app won't start. I see a message stating You

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rd2dvi --pdf

2010-01-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 5, 2010, at 0:56 , Matthew Fero wrote: I know this has been addressed before, but I'm not sure I understand the prior comments. Does the R Mac binary installer include the latex components necessary to run the 'R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf' command? No, see FAQ 2.1.8 If so, where should

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rd2dvi --pdf

2010-01-07 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:31 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Matthew Fero wrote: I know this has been addressed before, but I'm not sure I understand the prior comments. Does the R Mac binary installer include the latex components necessary to run the 'R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf'

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rggobi: Installation problems on OS X Snow Leopard

2010-01-08 Thread Simon Urbanek
Elisabeth, rggobi is currently not available from CRAN because RGtk2 (which is required by rggobi) does not work with 64-bit R. You can try to compile your own rggobi in 32-bit (at your own risk) as follows: a) install Xcode from the Snow Leopard DVD (if you didn't already) b) download

[R-SIG-Mac] New GTK+ [Was: rggobi: Installation problems on OS X Snow Leopard]

2010-01-08 Thread Simon Urbanek
stay tuned. Cheers, Simon On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:19 , Simon Urbanek wrote: Elisabeth, rggobi is currently not available from CRAN because RGtk2 (which is required by rggobi) does not work with 64-bit R. You can try to compile your own rggobi in 32-bit (at your own risk) as follows

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] unprecedented errors at start-up

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 5:27 , Milan Esner wrote: Hello SImon, I just encountered similar problems like Massimo. I upgraded to 10.6.1 from 10.5.8. I installed a new R 2.10.1 and when I start up the R I have the same message During startup

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problems with the png(type = quartz) device

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 12, 2010, at 8:50 , Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: Steffen Neuman has provided the following reproducible example for (subtype in c(cairo, Xlib, quartz)) { png(filename=paste(test,subtype,plot%003d.png, sep=_), width = 640, height = 480, type=subtype) for (i in c(1,2,3)) { plot(0,0,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] how to start R64 from M-x R...

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 12, 2010, at 14:47 , Christian Hoffmann wrote: Hi there, May be this question has been answered before, but how to start the 64 bit version inside ESS? I have successfully used C-u M-x R then --arch=x86_64 RT, but remembering --arch=x86_64 is a nuisance (for me...). Defining on

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Source package installation under OSX 10.4 / R 2.10.1

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
Rich, On Jan 12, 2010, at 13:17 , Rich FitzJohn wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong place to post or if this has been addressed elsewhere. I am running R 2.10.1 under OS X 10.5 (Leopard). After upgrading R from 2.10 to 2.10.1, I found that no source package would install, with

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Package loading problem

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 12, 2010, at 16:33 , Murray Jorgensen wrote: Hi I have downloaded and installed R 2.10.1 to my Mac running OS X 10.5.8. Hardware Overview: Model Name:iMac Model Identifier: iMac7,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R2.10 vs OSX 10.4.11

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 12, 2010, at 17:51 , Carl Witthoft wrote: Hi, Can someone let me know what should work and what is known not to work with the latest R2.10x when installed on Tiger (10.4.11)? No, there is no R2.10x. I did a quick tryout and found that the ? command brings up a blank help window.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R2.10 vs OSX 10.4.11

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Urbanek
Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 17:51 , Carl Witthoft wrote: Hi, Can someone let me know what should work and what is known not to work with the latest R2.10x when installed on Tiger (10.4.11)? No, there is no R2.10x. I did a quick tryout and found that the ? command brings

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

2010-01-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
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 was maybe available last year (see

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Strange error message with mclapply

2010-01-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
Guillaume, please read ?multicore -- especially the section Warning. Cheers, Simon On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:42 , Guillaume Chapron wrote: Hello, I have this test function: onerun - function(j) { p - numeric(10) for (i in 1:9) { p[i+1] - j

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] suggestion to improve R GUI on Mac OS X

2010-01-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:35 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Deryk Wenaus wrote: Hi, I've been using R for a little while and have a simple suggestion to improve usability. While I find the match brace/quotes feature in R! to be handy, especially when writing

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.10.1, OSX 10.4.11, and maybe a firewall

2010-01-17 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 16, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Carl Witthoft wrote: quote As Simon said, 2.10.1 on Tiger 10.4.11 fixed annoying bugs related to help and syntax error messages which make the old 2.10.0 unusable on my 10.4.11 PPC. Now, all is fine Phil from Belgium /quote Wish I could say the same.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [Rd] CRAN: No MacOS X binary builds since January 7

2010-01-18 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:53 , Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: Not an issue for *this* list! I used this list to share this with package developers - not particularly MacOS X users. As a package provider I'd like to know

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Using previous version of R as the default version

2010-01-20 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Raktim Sinha wrote: Hello, I am running Mac OS X 10.6. I had R 2.9 and recently updated to 2.10. When I start R it defaults to v 2.10. I can launch R 2.9 with an absolute path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/R

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 21, 2010, at 14:47 , cstrato wrote: Dear all, I have the following problem: My Bioconductor package xps requires both R and ROOT, whereby I compile ROOT usually from source. Until now this has not been a problem since I do all my development on Tiger. However, now I wanted to

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
they define - it just adds Fortran support to the existing gcc 4.2.1 branch of Apple that you installed as Xcode. However, the Fortran part is merged from the GNU Fortran 4.2.4 release - hence I refer to it as 4.2.4. Cheers, Simon Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 14:47 , cstrato wrote

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Using previous version of R as the default version

2010-01-22 Thread Simon Urbanek
- From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:53 PM To: Raktim Sinha Cc: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Using previous version of R as the default version On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Raktim Sinha wrote: Hello

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-24 Thread Simon Urbanek
the following website, which told me how to install gfortran and how I could uninstall it: http://www.webmo.net/support/fortran_osx.html Thank you in advance. Best regards Christian Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 15:56 , cstrato wrote: Dear

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
uninstall it: http://www.webmo.net/support/fortran_osx.html Thank you in advance. Best regards Christian Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 15:56 , cstrato wrote: Dear Simon, One more question: I have just unzipped gfortran-4.2-5564-darwin9.tar.gz. The version gives: Using built

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
Christian Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 15:03 , cstrato wrote: Dear Simon, Thank you for your suggestions, which I have just tried. Sadly the error remains the same. The problem seems to be that for some reason gfortran-4.2-5564-darwin9.tar.gz does not have a /usr/lib/gcc

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
. Note that you still have to run 64-bit R -- e.g. R --arch=x86_64 Cheers, Simon Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:34 PM, cstrato wrote: Dear Simon, Thank you, with this version I could finally compile ROOT as 64 bit. Now I have one more question: When I do R CMD Install

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Which gfortran for Leopard?

2010-01-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
do. Kasper If yes, can I use: http://r.research.att.com/R-GUI-5548-2.10-leopard-Leopard64.dmg or do I need to build 64 bit R from source? Best regards Christian Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:34 PM, cstrato wrote: Dear Simon, Thank you, with this version I could finally

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Failed compile of cshapes package

2010-01-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 26, 2010, at 16:19 , Nils B. Weidmann wrote: Dear all, I have been submitting more recent versions of my cshapes package to CRAN. Whereas version 0.1-1 compiled just fine, all subsequent releases failed to do so, but only under OS X:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] iPad?

2010-01-30 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:00 AM, Byron Ellis wrote: Erm... Not so difficult, the iPhone toolchain is using gcc and it wouldn't be hard to make an ARM gfortran... I think Simon did on a lark when the iPhone came out. Indeed, R has no crucial issues on arm - the support is there from the times

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] EBImage segfault

2010-02-01 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 1, 2010, at 13:51 , Eric Wooten wrote: Maybe more of a BioC forum question, but seemingly applicable here: after compiling EBImage, I catch a segfault upon trying to load the library. ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Fwd: iPad query

2010-02-02 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 2, 2010, at 5:21 , Christian Prinoth wrote: I think that integration of R into Numbers on ordinary Os X would be far more interesting than R on iPad... It can be done, sort of, with Rserve and appscript, but native support would be awesome... That last time I looked Numbers had no

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error on forcing change to utf-8 locale on R.app

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 10, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Prashanth NS wrote: Dear all, I am a new mac user and an inexperienced R user, now using the latter on the former! On running the R.app on my Macbook Pro with OS X Snowleopard, warnings about non UTF-8 locale showed up. You're using a non-UTF8 locale,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] help difficulties on

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: Dear R-sig-Mac'ers: I'm posting on behalf of a student who is having trouble with accessing the help files in R.app (I think) on MacOS X.4 (I think X.4.11?) . The basic symptom is that in a clean R session she gets results like this:

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

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Ken Knoblauch wrote: Ken Knoblauch ken.knoblauch at inserm.fr writes: First, I want to thank everybody who responded for their helpful comments and suggestions, though the problem is still unresolved and if anyone has any additional ideas, I would be grateful.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Changing the colour of text output in the R.app Console?

2010-02-22 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 18, 2010, at 22:58 , Thomas Richardson wrote: Hello, Is there a command that allows the colour of text in the R.app console window to be changed? I know that the colors can be changed manually via preferences, but I have been unable to find a way to do it via a command within the

[R-SIG-Mac] Building binaries of OpenMx [Was: libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install]

2010-03-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
: http://openmx.psyc.virginia.edu/getOpenMx.R . On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Tim Brick tbr...@virginia.edu wrote: From: Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org Date: March 3, 2010 8:32:52 AM MST To: tbr...@virginia.edu Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch, r-b...@r-project.org Subject: Re

[R-SIG-Mac] distributable binary Mac packages [Was: libgfortran misplaced in Mac OS X R install]

2010-03-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
putting what I wrote below into the FAQ. Thanks, Simon On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Simon Urbanek wrote: Hi Michael, On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:01 , Michael Spiegel wrote: I am the guy who compiles the OpenMx binaries. We would be delighted to place our package on CRAN, once the project is stable

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RODBC

2010-03-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Ivan Calandra wrote: Dear Mac users, Up to now, I've run R on Windows and I have some problems using my scripts on Mac OS X 10.6, R.app GUI 1.31 (5537 Leopard build 64-bit). Here is the code I use to export a data.frame to an *.xls file: xlsFile -

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] build of package xlsx fails on Mac (fwd)

2010-03-10 Thread Simon Urbanek
Adrian, On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:50 , Adrian Dragulescu wrote: Simon, I got bounced as a non-member. Maybe you are in the best position to have an opinion on this. Yes, since OS X 10.5 Apple dropped support for AWT on the main thread, so essentially you cannot use any graphics classes

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] How to interrupt an R process that hangs

2010-03-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 15, 2010, at 14:42 , Adam D. I. Kramer wrote: +1--this is the single most-annoying issue with R that I know of. My usual solution, after accomplishing nothing as R spins idly for a couple hours, is to kill the process and lose any un-saved work. save.history() is my friend, but is

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] How to interrupt an R process that hangs

2010-03-15 Thread Simon Urbanek
). Cheers, Simon On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 14:42 , Adam D. I. Kramer wrote: +1--this is the single most-annoying issue with R that I know of. My usual solution, after accomplishing nothing as R spins idly for a couple

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Makeconf and GCC version: Leopard vs Snow Leopard

2010-03-17 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Simon Anders wrote: Hi Simon etc. We've recently got a number of question from users of our packages, who, for certain reasons, wanted to compile them from source on a Mac, and ran into problems, namely the error message that 'gcc-4.2' was not found. I don't

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