On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Francis Smart wrote: > Hi Simon, > > I am not sure if you saw the email that I responded to that David > sent. In that response I used the link he sent me. In that response > I used the versions listed on the link. > > And described exactly what I did that resulted in it freezing up. > > I hope this is clear. If it is not, I am happy to provide whatever > additional information would be useful. I think the r-team does > amazing work and I would be happy to help in whatever way I can. > > In case you missed that email, I have copied it below. > > The referenced R installs are from > http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/macosx/universal/base/ and the two > are R-2.10.0.dmg and R-2.9.2.dmg >
Those are for Tiger (10.4), please try the R-2.10.0.pkg which is for Leopard (10.5) and let me know if the problem persists. Thanks, Simon > Cheers! > Francis > > Hi David, > > I know I was being vague when I posted but I had gotten frustrated > with R and deleted it hours before and I was not sure what the version > was at the time. But now I am. > > Version R-2.10.0 worked on startup and worked when I typed >1:10 > however it froze when I typed >f() without f being defined. There > were other functions that caused it to freeze, but I did not keep > track of all of them. > > So I tried R-2.10.0 and it froze again under identical circumstances. > > I went to the next oldest version R-2.9.2 and it froze on the last > stage of the installation process. I forced it to quit and went to > the application folder and so far it is stable. > > If it has problems, I will just keep going back to older releases. > > Thank you for your help, > Francis > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Simon Urbanek > <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: >> Francis, >> >> On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Francis Smart wrote: >> >>> Dear R people, >>> >>> I am running OS 10.5.8 on my PowerBook G4 and unfortunately it will >>> not allow me to upgrade to Snow Leopard, because it does not run an >>> Intel Chip. >>> >> >> FWIW that makes no difference as we don't build anything specially for Snow >> Leopard. And, yes, ppc is no longer supported by Apple since 10.6. >> >> >>> I have downloaded a version of R and it does not appear to be stable. >> >> Can you tell us which version, please? I know that you already answered that >> you're happy with 2.9.2 but unless you tell us there may be more users >> sharing your frustration ... I don't have any ppc machines anymore so I >> cannot easily test that ... >> >> >>> I have thought about about installing Linux to ensure a stable build >>> but unfortunately I bought the PowerBook G4 used and I did not come >>> with install disks. The Leopard install disks I do have refuse to run >>> on an non-Intel machine. So if I installed Linux, that would mean >>> that I would have to uninstall OS X and I probably would not be able >>> to reinstall it. >>> >>> So I guess I am wondering if anybody has a build of R that they know >>> is stable on 10.5.8. Also, I am sure there are other potential >>> solutions that I have not thought of. >>> >> >> R is supposed to be stable but there was one big change in the R.app GUI for >> R 2.10 which may be the culprit (but then there were some GUI mismatch >> reports in the Tiger build so possibly the Leopard build is fine...). The >> real question is whether you installed the Tiger or the Leopard build of R >> (both work on your machine). Once we know we can try to trace that back ... >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> >>> Any recommendations? >>> >>> Thank you for your time, >>> Francis >>> -- >>> Francis Smart >>> (202) 540-8108 primary >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > > > > -- > Francis Smart > -------------------- > PhD Student - Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan > State University > (406) 223-8108 > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
