Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/09/2013 01:52, John Fox wrote: Dear Sarah, -Original Message- From: Sarah Hardy [mailto:sarah.ha...@maine.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:08 PM To: John Fox Cc: Simon Urbanek; David Winsemius; r-sig-mac Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread peter dalgaard
On Sep 20, 2013, at 08:49 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I am not so sure about that. It will do no harm running CRAN binary R. But it does mean that there are multiple versions of X11 things about and that will cause problems for other things (including possibly installing packages from

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com writes: On Sep 20, 2013, at 08:49 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I am not so sure about that. It will do no harm running CRAN binary R. But it does mean that there are multiple versions of X11 things about and that will cause problems for other things

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 20-09-2013, at 11:29, peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 20, 2013, at 08:49 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I am not so sure about that. It will do no harm running CRAN binary R. But it does mean that there are multiple versions of X11 things about and that will cause

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:49:05 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 20/09/2013 01:52, John Fox wrote: Dear Sarah, -Original Message- From: Sarah Hardy [mailto:sarah.ha...@maine.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:08 PM To: John Fox Cc:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/09/2013 12:54, John Fox wrote: Dear Brian, On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:49:05 +0100 Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 20/09/2013 01:52, John Fox wrote: Dear Sarah, -Original Message- From: Sarah Hardy [mailto:sarah.ha...@maine.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 19,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread Flip Phillips
Ouch. I keep forgetting how sophisticated the users of Windows are. On Sep 20, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.ukmailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: Almost all of the problems people have with the Rcmdr package are on the Mac OS X platform, and since most of these

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread John Fox
Dear flip, -Original Message- From: Flip Phillips [mailto:f...@skidmore.edu] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 8:41 AM To: r-sig-mac@r-project.org; rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk; j...@mcmaster.ca Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8 Ouch.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread John Fox
Dear Brian, I've modified the Mac installation instructions again to add back the check for a prior installation of X-Windows. The instructions are at http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html. Thanks for your help, John -Original Message- From: Prof

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading Rcmdr on a Mac 10.7.2 and a Mac 10.6.8

2013-09-20 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 20-09-2013, at 15:08, John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote: Dear Brian, I've modified the Mac installation instructions again to add back the check for a prior installation of X-Windows. The instructions are at http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html. A