Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-12 Thread John Fox
Dear Eberhard, On 2021-01-12 9:41 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: John, maybe I misunderestimate the students :-)-O but there is not much sophistication required to follow simple instructions while thinking about what one is doing when doing so. At least that was my generation of students

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, maybe I misunderestimate the students :-)-O but there is not much sophistication required to follow simple instructions while thinking about what one is doing when doing so. At least that was my generation of students did. If they can install XQuartz, they can install the command line

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-12 Thread John Fox
, Université Lyon 1 De : John Fox Envoyé : mardi 12 janvier 2021 03:30 À : CHAMPELY STEPHANE Cc : r-help@r-project.org; Dr Eberhard W Lisse Objet : Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac Dear Stephane, I've taken yet another look at this and have

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-12 Thread John Fox
Dear Eberhard, On 2021-01-12 12:32 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: John, what is wrong with installing Xcode’s command lime tools (not Xcode itself)? Nothing, and I did miss the distinction, but it shouldn't be necessary, and the instructions for installing the Rcmdr are already more

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-11 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, what is wrong with installing Xcode’s command lime tools (not Xcode itself)? — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone On 12 Jan 2021, 04:30 +0200, John Fox , wrote: > Dear Stephane, > > I've taken yet another look at this and have an additional suggestion > for your students to try: > >

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Stephane, I've taken yet another look at this and have an additional suggestion for your students to try: install.packages("Rcmdr", type="mac.binary") That should avoid any attempt to install Rcmdr package dependencies from source. I hope this helps, John On 2021-01-11 3:53

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Stephane and Eberhard, As an addendum to my previous response, I uninstalled the Rcmdr package and all of its direct and indirect dependencies and then reinstalled the package -- on a macOS 11.1 system running R 4.0.3 with all other packages up-to-date. I then reinstalled the Rcmdr and

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-11 Thread John Fox
Dear Stephane and Eberhard, It should not be necessary to install Xcode (which includes otools) to install and use the Rcmdr package on macOS because it shouldn't be necessary to install the CRAN packages required from source. I'm currently running the Rcmdr on two macOS 11.1 systems, with

Re: [R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-11 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Use RStudio. But it can be that the command line tools are missing, which you (may) need to compile packages (from source).Ask one of them to open a terminal window and type the command ‘make —version’ without the ‘’) if that results in an error they need to enter ‘sudo xcode-select —install’

[R] Troubles installing Rcmdr on Mac

2021-01-11 Thread CHAMPELY STEPHANE
Dear colleagues, I try to help my (french) student since five days to install Rcmd for mac and they have (ALL of them, and I use windows so I am not very skilled for that task) the same problem. When they load Rcmd, some supplementary tools (in order to use the command "otool") are missing