R runs in emacs on the mac. I use GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-01-29 on bob.porkrind.org
with Vincent Goulet's distribution. M-x R works. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Paul Hewson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
