Simon Quick follow-up.
Does this mean that X11 starts automatically whenever R.app is launched? It seems like a waste of resources to have X11 (besides having to wait for it to start). > On 2015-03-18, at 17:13, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Mar 17, 2015, at 1:09 PM, zListserv <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Following Simon's instructions (abstract below), I installed >> R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg. >> >> Starting R.app yields a message that it requires X11. I neither need nor >> want X11. How do I get rid of this requirement and the message? >> > > R.app doesn't need X11, but R does since it comes with X11 support. > > BTW: The nightly binaries are now updated so they have the correct R.app and > so does the CRAN binary for R 3.1.3. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > >>>>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at >>>>> r-project.org> >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have more evidence that points at Xcode. If you use the R.app GUI >>> that was compiled at the time of R 3.1.1 - available here: >>>>> >>>>> http://r.research.att.com/R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg >>>>> >>>>> then all is well. As we discussed earlier, the code did not change at >>> all and the underlying R version is irrelevant, so the only piece that >>> changed since July last year when this was built was the Xcode version (and >>> thus the compilers used). It's not clear to me at all how the Xcode version >>> can affect NSTextView so badly, so this will require some more digging. In >>> the meantime, please use the above R.app binary. >>>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
