Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions

2012-10-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
Paul, On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Paul Hewson wrote: Hello, I have just been given an institutional macbook - I'm very used to linux, but some apple things are baffling me (like the lack of sudo apt-get update and upgrade for example). It's called softwareupdate on OS X ... apt is

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions

2012-10-19 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
R runs in emacs on the mac. I use GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-01-29 on bob.porkrind.org with Vincent Goulet's distribution. M-x R works. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Paul Hewson paul.hew...@plymouth.ac.ukwrote: typing R in the console gets the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions

2012-10-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Paul Hewson wrote: typing R in the console gets the error you don't have permission to use the application R. the message is on a dialog box that pops up. the R gui though is marvellous, works fine. Problem is I can't run r from aquamacs (same error

[R-SIG-Mac] warning on macintosh 2.16 that is not on 2.15.2 or on windows

2012-10-19 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
mylegend - structure(list(bottom = structure(list(fun = draw.key, args = structure(list( key = structure(list(y = -0.2, x = 0.15, points = structure(list( col = c(red, blue), pch = c(16, 17)), .Names = c(col, pch)), text = structure(list(c(TREATMENT A (N=216), TREATMENT B (N=431)

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions

2012-10-19 Thread Davor Cubranic
On 12-10-19 02:28 PM, Paul Hewson wrote: As I say, I think I've tracked the symlink itself as well as the files it links to /usr/bin/R is itself a symlink to R64.All three users have an x when you do ls -l , they don't all have r and w. Can you show us the output of running: ls -l

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Naive question about permissions

2012-10-19 Thread Paul Hewson
Thanks very much all, I'm still sure this is mac naivety on my part, but I'm still curious how I've managed to foul up what seems like such a simple procedure. John's longer point - I'm going to check out removing and re-installing. I had to enter a system password and checkbox that I