thank you for catching that typo Rich
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:21 AM, John Maindonald <[email protected]> wrote: > http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ ? > > John Maindonald email: [email protected] > phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 > Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, > John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) > Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. > > > On 28 Oct 2014, at 15:03, Richard M. Heiberger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just did a workshop for new R users. the only serious installation >> problem I >> saw was Macintosh users and tctlk. From this discussion, I knew to tell both >> people they needed to download quartz.macosforge.org >> and indeed that solved it. >> >> Is there a place on the package DESCRIPTION file to state that dependency, >> thus triggering the download and installation of quartz? That would >> take the responsibility for discovering this need away from the end user? >> >> Rich >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:15 PM, John Fox <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear Simon, >>> >>> I installed Yosemite a couple of days ago and everything seems to work fine >>> so far, including the tcltk demo that caused problems for Peter, and the >>> Rcmdr package, which gives Tcl/Tk a pretty good workout. I first >>> reinstalled XQuartz, as suggested, and I also reinstalled R and updated all >>> packages, though the latter two steps probably weren't necessary. I figured >>> that it would help to hear positive experiences as well as problems. >>> >>> The only issue that I've encountered so far is specific to checking >>> packages under RStudio, which doesn't appear to find pdflatex; OTOH, R CMD >>> check runs fine in a terminal window. I haven't yet tried to resolve this >>> problem. >>> >>> Best, >>> John >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:38 PM >>>> To: John Fox >>>> Cc: Amos B. Elberg; r-sig-mac; Spencer Mass; Ben Clark; peter dalgaard; >>>> Marc Schwartz; David Winsemius; Hadley Wickham >>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R >>>> >>>> I wasn't able to reproduce but I suspect those are all red herrings - >>>> there are really no subprocesses involved at all in either case. >>>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:19 PM, John Fox <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> I wonder whether this issue also accounts for the tcltk problems that >>>> have been reported. (I haven't yet upgraded to Yosemite myself, hoping >>>> to wait for the wrinkles to be ironed out, though I'll likely do so >>>> shortly if only to see what happens.) >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> John >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces@r- >>>>>> project.org] On Behalf Of Amos B. Elberg >>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:40 PM >>>>>> To: David Winsemius; Hadley Wickham >>>>>> Cc: r-sig-mac; Spencer Mass >>>>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R >>>>>> >>>>>> If the full environment isn’t getting passed to R-spawned sub- >>>>>> processes, that might explain an error I’ve been having since the >>>>>> update: when R is launched from the command line, calls that should >>>>>> create an X11 window in the background fail unless an X11 window has >>>>>> already been created with the width and height specified: >>>>>> >>>>>>> plot(rnorm(100)) >>>>>> Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height, >>>>>> d$pointsize, : >>>>>> invalid 'width' or 'height' >>>>>>> X11() >>>>>> Error in .External2(C_X11, d$display, d$width, d$height, >>>>>> d$pointsize, : >>>>>> invalid 'width' or 'height' >>>>>>> X11(width = 5, height = 5) >>>>>>> plot(rnorm(100)) >>>>>> [now it works - and any number of additional windows can be spawned >>>>>> without repeating the error] >>>>>> [quitting R and reopening, without quitting XQuartz, and I get the >>>> same >>>>>> error calling plot() before X11(width = , height = ) >>>>>> >>>>>> This does not happen in RStudio. I don’t use the R.app gui; I >>>> opened >>>>>> it just now to test and I got a slew of path-related errors, but >>>>>> they’re as likely to have to do with my not-maintained R.app as with >>>>>> anything else. >>>>>> >>>>>> I had not reported this already because I wasn’t confident whether >>>> its >>>>>> a yosemite issue, an R-patched issue, or just something odd in the >>>> way >>>>>> I built R. >>>>>> >>>>>> If incomplete-environment-passing is the new normal, is this not >>>> going >>>>>> to be a common issue for packages that spawn sub-processes? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> From: Hadley Wickham <[email protected]> >>>>>> Reply: Hadley Wickham <[email protected]>> >>>>>> Date: October 21, 2014 at 10:12:13 AM >>>>>> To: David Winsemius <[email protected]>> >>>>>> Cc: r-sig-mac <[email protected]>>, Spencer Mass >>>>>> <[email protected]>> >>>>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite and R >>>>>> >>>>>>> No, it is not. It is expected that the path in the terminal be >>>>>>> different to the path in R, it is _not_ expected that the path in R >>>>>> be >>>>>>> different to the path in a subprocess started by R. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (Well it is now expected, because this appears to be a new security >>>>>>> feature in Yosemite) >>>>>> >>>>>> The best thread I could find on the problem is here: >>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/mactlmgr/issues/detail?id=102 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> http://had.co.nz/ >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 >>>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
