Note from my prior message that I did explicitly use --rhome= just in case to be sure the launcher could find my installation. Also from the output of rversions.bat we see that R is listed in the registry. Is there anything else it needs?
C:\tmp2>R --version R version 2.9.0 Patched (2009-06-04 r48708) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 ...snip... C:\tmp2> rem rversions.bat shows R versions found in registry C:\tmp2> rem http://batchfiles.googlecode.com C:\tmp2>rversions.bat R-2.10.x R-2.5.1 R-2.6.0 R-2.6.0alpha R-2.6.2 R-2.7.x R-2.8.0pat R-2.8.x R-2.9.0dev R-2.9.x On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Ian Fellows<ifell...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > I'm using XP, but I tested an earlier version on Vista. It looks like the > launcher is having some trouble finding your installation. I don't have much > to do with the launcher, so I've forwarded your message to an appropriate > list. I'll see if I can test on a vista machine some time today. > > Ian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:42 AM > To: Fellows, Ian > Cc: r-sig-gui@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI > > Just a correction. The version of JGR I was using is 1.7.0. > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Gabor > Grothendieck<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What version of Windows and JGR did you try? I haven't been able >> to get JGR to work on Windows Vista with R 2.9 and JGR 1.6.7 or >> JGR 1.6.6 (the prior version of JGR). >> >> When I run jgr.exe it seems to install something the first time and >> on subsequent calls to jgr.exe without arguments it tries to install >> it again but fails. >> >> Since calling it without args fails, I tried this as well as numerous >> variations of arguments as well as using or not using >> R_LIBS, R_LIBS_USER, etc. e.g. >> >> setlocal >> set R_LIBS_USER=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\R\win-library\2.9 >> set R_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-29~1.X >> jgr.exe --libpath=%R_LIBS_USER% --rhome=%R_HOME% >> endlocal >> >> but in all cases JGR opens and then immediately closes. >> >> With the prior version of JGR, 1.6.6, the above hung and I had to kill it > with >> task manager. Also with the prior version of task manager if I removed >> the R_LIBS_USER line then it would open but give a huge number of >> errors and the user library would not be on .libPaths(). >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ian Fellows<ifell...@ucsd.edu> wrote: >>> >>> I haven't tested with Linux, only windows and os x. Swing is supposed to > be >>> cross platform, but some times these things don't work quite as planned. >>> >>> I just installed fresh on a windows machine from CRAN which worked okay > but >>> I did notice one potential problem. The JGR launcher will download the >>> newest dev version of JGR (1.7) if no version is currently present. So, >>> there is an additional step of opening the native R console and entering >>> install.packages("JGR"). >>> >>> This is not the problem on your system, as you are running 1.6-7. I'll > have >>> to find a linux machine and do some testing to figure out what is going > on. >>> As I said, this is very much in the pre-alpha stage, so this is useful >>> information for me. Does anyone else have this problem? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> ian >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Tom Hodder [mailto:t...@limepepper.co.uk] >>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:30 PM >>> To: Fellows, Ian >>> Cc: r-sig-gui@stat.math.ethz.ch >>> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI >>> >>> Ian Fellows wrote: >>>> Thanks for looking Tom. >>>> >>>> Are you entering "library(Deducer)" from within the JGR console? >>>> >>>> What version of JGR are you using? The version number is displayed on > the >>>> splash screen at start up, and should be 1.6-7. >>>> >>>> What operating system are you using? >>>> >>>> Is your R up to date? i.e. Version 2.9.0 >>>> >>>> Are there any warnings/errors? >>>> >>>> >>> [r...@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep R-core >>> R-core-2.9.0-2.fc10.x86_64 >>> [r...@localhost ~]# java -version >>> java version "1.6.0_0" >>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.5) (fedora-18.b16.fc10-x86_64) >>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b15, mixed mode) >>> [r...@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release >>> Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) >>> >>> JGR is 1.6-7 >>> >>> I am running the following in the JGR console; >>> >>> "> library(Deducer) >>> Loading required package: ggplot2 >>> Loading required package: proto >>> Loading required package: grid >>> Loading required package: reshape >>> Loading required package: plyr >>> >>> Attaching package: 'ggplot2' >>> >>> >>> The following object(s) are masked from package:grid : >>> >>> nullGrob " >>> >>> There are no errors to either the JGR or R console >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-GUI mailing list >>> R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui