Alexey, On Oct 8, 2006, at 4:56 AM, iit512 wrote:
> Since official R now exists only for Tiger, I upgraded my Panther > 10.3.9 to 10.4.3, then to 10.4.8. After that, I had several > troubles regarding installation of R. First of all, R.mpkg neither > from R.2.3.1.dmg, nor from R-2.4.0.dmg, nor from R-2.4.0-mini.dmg > open in installer. Console had the message "Can't open package / > Volumes/R-2.4.0-mini/R.mpkg (there was an error reading the file > R.info)." Yes, this file (R.info) is absent in R.mpkg/Contents/ > Resources/English.lproj. Unfortunately, my efforts to create such a > file manually were useless. > This seems like a broken upgrade of your system or damaged image. Possibly you're fetching the outdated installer from the previous system. I have seen a similar problem on a broken system (it wouldn't open any installer files) long time ago. In that instance the OS was defective and had to be re-installed. I don't know if that is your case (I hope not), but the images work perfectly well on all systems I tested. You may want to check the MD5 sum to make sure the image is ok. There is no such thing as "R.info" in any of the packages. > Then I have started the installation of separate packages from / > Packages folder of disk image, despite the warning (-- Please use R > installer in the root of this image! --), because I had no other > choice except compiling from source. The installation of R > framework went well, but R-GUI.pkg refused to install with a > message "You cannot install this software on this volume. Requires > R framework version 2.4.x" -- but R framework 2.4.0 was already > installed and worked from console! > Again, this looks as if your installer is broken. The package instructs the installer to look for /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.4/Resources/lib/libR.dylib You may want to check manually - if it is there, then it's definitely the installer. > So, my first question, how to avoid this troubles in future? > Get a working system ;)? No, seriously, I cannot reproduce any of the problems you illustrated. If you can reproduce the problems on another system, please let me know. > The second question concerns Tcl/Tk and R Commander. I am the > Russian translator of this package (and also of R itself), so I am > interesting how to avoid the really ugly-looking Russian fonts in > Tcl/Tk? (See the attachment for an example). > This will be an X11 and/or Tcl/Tk font issue. You can try your luck on R-help, consult any leads concerning cyrillic fonts in X11 on the web and/or ask the maintainer Rcmdr about font handling. The issue should not be Mac-specific, as X11 is used on all unix variants. > And also, when I forget to load X11 before calling R Commander, the > first time tcl/tk interface finishes with error, which is OK. But > if I load X11, and call R Commander the second time, R hangs > forever (and no message on console). If I run X11 first, R > Commander works relatively well. > Same as above, you may want to ask the Rcmdr maintainer. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
