On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Paul Hewson 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. >
What exactly happens when you run R in Terminal? Do you still get a dialog box? It's a console application after all ... > 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. To my best knowledge yes, you are - this is not something that usually happens with the CRAN binary .. it's rather odd unless you have some custom setting ... try R --vanilla just in case ... Cheers, Simon > 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
