typing R in the console gets the error "you don't have permission to use the application R". the message is on a dialog box that pops up.
the R gui though is marvellous, works fine. Problem is I can't run r from aquamacs (same error message), or from make. R will though run as sudo, but that seems like a naughty workround. But at least it suggests all the paths etc. are correct. Fairly sure this is all dumb newbie mac user, but I hope I'm not the first. I couldn't see anything on any helplists anywhere. The only thing close was to run the "repair permissions" which I've done and a email from you a couple of years ago about mac installer setting permissions. As I say, I think I've tracked the symlink itself as well as the files it links to /usr/bin/R is itself a symlink to R64. All three users have an x when you do ls -l , they don't all have r and w. Thanks paul =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Paul Hewson Editor, Teaching Statistics (www.teachingstatistics.co.uk) Associate Professor (SL) Statistics School of Computing & Maths Plymouth University Drake Circus Plymouth PL4 8AA ++44 (0)1752 586870 On 19 Oct 2012, at 22:05, "Simon Urbanek" <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Paul Hewson wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have just been given an institutional macbook - I'm very used to linux, >> but some apple things are baffling me (like the lack of sudo apt-get update >> and upgrade for example). >> > > It's called softwareupdate on OS X ... apt is specific to Debian, so, yes, OS > X is not Debian :) Just install Debian on the MacBook if you don't want to be > baffled, it's possible and some people that buy Macs just for the hardware do > it. > > >> I've installed roasted marshmallows, it's very nice. However, I can't run >> it from command line (or aquamacs) due to some permissions error. I've >> checked both R, the R64 and the symlink as described on the FAQ page. All >> the permissions look OK (everyone seems to have x). >> >> The only thing I can think of is that I'm not in the admin group (and can't >> seem to put myself in that group). Could this be a chmod issue or am I >> barking up the wrong tree completely. >> > > We can't tell because you omitted all useful information ... (what error? > where? how do you start it?) > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > >> Paul >> >> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= >> Paul Hewson >> Editor, Teaching Statistics (www.teachingstatistics.co.uk) >> Associate Professor (SL) Statistics >> School of Computing & Maths >> Plymouth University >> Drake Circus >> Plymouth PL4 8AA >> ++44 (0)1752 586870 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
