Dear Andy and Simon, There are installation notes for Mac users of the R Commander at <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>. If after following the steps in the installation notes the Rcmdr still fails to work, I too would be interested to find that out.
Best, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek > Sent: July-12-11 5:08 PM > To: Skelton, James > Cc: HelpDesk; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander > > Andy, > > please check that you have X11 installed. Also see whether clicking on > the X11 icon in the GUI toolbar does start X11. Finally, try setting > Sys.setenv(DISPLAY=":0.0") > before loading tcltk/Rcmdr. > > If that doesn't help, please send me the crash log. > > Thanks, > Simon > > > > > On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Skelton, James wrote: > > > I am a brand new user of R, running the Macintosh implementation of > > R.app > > 2.13.1 on an iMac 21" (3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo) under OS 10.6.8. I have > > Administrator privileges on this machine. > > Upon invoking library(Rcmdr) , I get the notice that tcltk is being > > called up followed by a system prompt (>). However, the X11 window > > doesn't open, and nothing at all happens. When I type any legitimate > > command at the prompt, this appears in the R Console window: > > > > *** caught bus error *** > > address 0x4, cause 'non-existent physical address' > > > > Traceback: > > 1: sys.parent() > > 2: sys.function(sys.parent()) > > 3: formals(sys.function(sys.parent())) > > 4: match.arg(encoding) > > 5: match(match.arg(encoding), c("", "bytes", "UTF-8")) > > 6: textConnection("rval", "w", local = TRUE) > > 7: capture.output(print(args(help))) > > 8: paste(capture.output(print(args(help))), collapse = "") > > 9: gsub("\\s+", " ", paste(capture.output(print(args(help))), collapse > > = > > "")) > > 10: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler) > > 11: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]]) > > 12: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers) > > 13: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) > if > > (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1L]], > quote(doTryCatch))) > > call <- sys.call(-4L) dcall <- deparse(call)[1L] > > prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75L msg > <- > > conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]] w <- > 14L > > + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w") if > > (is.na(w)) w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + > nchar(sm[1L], > > type = "b") if (w > LONG) prefix <- > > paste(prefix, "\n ", sep = "") } else prefix <- "Error : " > msg > > <- paste(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "") > > .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L])) if (!silent && > > identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { > > cat(msg, file = stderr()) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) > } > > invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error"))}) > > 14: try(gsub("\\s+", " ", paste(capture.output(print(args(help))), > > collapse = "")), silent = TRUE) > > > > Possible actions: > > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) > > 2: normal R exit > > 3: exit R without saving workspace > > 4: exit R saving workspace > > > > > > > > I've forwarded the entire core dump to Apple and have a copy of it but > > have no idea how to make sense of it. > > Odd thing is, this problem doesn't occur on my 2008 Macbook at home, > > which runs the same Mac OS. It's peculiar to the iMac at my worksite. > > As I'm hoping to use R in some of my advanced undergrad teaching, > > it'll be helpful to solve this problem so my students can take > > advantage of the RCommander GUI. > > > > Thanks for any light you can shed on this! > > > > --Andy Skelton > > > > ***************************** > > J.A. Skelton > > Dept. of Psychology, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013-2896 > > E-mail: [email protected] > > Phone: 717-245-1309 > > ***************************** > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
