Then how do I prevent X11 from starting automatically (which it started to do after I installed R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg, and continued to do so after I reinstalled R from CRAN)?
> On 2015-03-18, at 19:51, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2015, at 5:17 PM, zListserv <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Simon >> >> Quick follow-up. >> >> Does this mean that X11 starts automatically whenever R.app is launched? >> > > No > > Cheers, > Simon > > >> 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
