Dear Andy, If X11 isn't working, then the problem doesn't have to do with the Rcmdr package or possibly even with R itself. Maybe Simon will be able to suggest a solution.
I'm sorry that you're experiencing problems. It would be nice if the tcltk package could work without Tcl/Tk for X11, but if that were simple I suspect that it would have been done a long time ago. Best, John > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Skelton, James > Sent: July-12-11 5:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander > > X11 is installed; the error recurs even when I've opened it myself > before invoking Rcmdr. > In addition, I've installed Rcmdr (and tcltk8.5.5-x11) per the > instructions at John's site (I learned about Rcmdr via Muenchen's "R for > SAS and SPSS Users," which provides the URL). > Simon, I'll forward the crash log to your email address, rather than > posting to the list. Beware: It's very long. > --Andy > > On 7/12/11 5:32 PM, "David Winsemius" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:18 PM, John Fox wrote: > > > >> 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. > >>htm > >>l > >> >. > >> If after following the steps in the installation notes the Rcmdr > >> still fails to work, I too would be interested to find that out. > > > >The second step in those directions was my guess as to the lesion. My > >understanding is that in 10.5 and 10.6 X11 is a default installation. > > > >-- > >David > >> > >> 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 > > > >David Winsemius, MD > >West Hartford, CT > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
