Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window

2018-10-19 Thread zListserv
Not born that way. I've migrated several laptops. This is the first time I lost /etc/hosts. > On 2018-10-19, at 05:01, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > What? Are they born that way, or does Migration Assistent bungle things up? > Or maybe OpenVPN does? > > Anyways, try adding a line saying > >

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window

2018-10-18 Thread zListserv
Ha! My /etc/hosts was empty (perhaps an error by Migration Assistant?). Populating it with the /etc/hosts from the host computer (particularly defining localhost) solves the problem. Many, many thanks for all your timely efforts and considerable help, > On 2018-10 -18, at 19:52, Marc

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window

2018-10-18 Thread zListserv
> On 2018-10-17, at 22:29, Marc Schwartz wrote: > > Ok, strange. I figured that there was some conflict/corruption in place with > R.app that was not immediately clear. > > Peter raised the possibility of a firewall issue, but I am curious as to why > that would affect the use of help in

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window

2018-10-17 Thread zListserv
a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] compiler_3.5.1 >> >> >>> capabilities() >> jpeg pngtiff tcltk X11aqua >> http/ftp sockets libxmlfifo >> TRUETRUETRUETRUETRU

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 187, Issue 8

2018-10-17 Thread zListserv
-- > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:48:12 -0400 > From: zListserv > To: Simon Urbanek , pda...@gmail.com, > r-sig-mac@r-project.org, btup...@bigelow.org > Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window > Message-ID: <963deb05-07e5-44d3-8

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window

2018-10-17 Thread zListserv
usr/bin/open”) > Help works when running R from console > - if that works try the same from the R.app gui *before* using help: > help.start(browser="/usr/bin/open”) No effect in R (except it opens my default browser). > > Cheers, > Simon > > >> On Oct 16,

[R-SIG-Mac] Blank help window

2018-10-16 Thread zListserv
I recently migrated to a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) using the Migration Assistant. Everything went well, though there are always a few things that don't transfer such as applications installed by Brew which I installed manually. An issue with R arose I can't solve. The help systen opens

[R-SIG-Mac] Problem updating packages

2017-03-25 Thread zListserv
In MacOS 10.12.3 (Sierra), I can't update packages (though it worked on the same computer in MacOS 10.11): update.packages( lib = lib <- .libPaths()[1], pkgs = as.data.frame(installed.packages(lib), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)$Package, type = 'source') Warning: unable to access

[R-SIG-Mac] Mavericks CMD install error

2013-12-14 Thread zListserv
I’ve done my best to follow Prof Ripley’s instructions (30 Oct 2013) for installing packages after upgrading to Mavericks. I’m stuck with an error in a package that installed without error under 10.8 (with the most recent version of Xcode 5.0.2). I installed the command line tools (late Oct

[R-SIG-Mac] Tab setting in R.app editor

2012-06-08 Thread zListserv
Is there a way to change to default tab stop setting from the present 4 characters (stops at 5, 9, etc) to 8 characters (stops at 9, 17, etc)? ___ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac