Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with Rcmdr via XQuartz on OSX Mavericks

2013-11-20 Thread peter dalgaard
Notes inlined below, -pd On 20 Nov 2013, at 18:19 , John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote: Dear Jonathan et al, First, thank you to all who responded. As I said, I haven't noticed this problem myself, but I'll try again on my Mac later today when I have some time and see whether I can

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with Rcmdr via XQuartz on OSX Mavericks

2013-11-20 Thread John Fox
Dear all, I was able to reproduce the problem on my Macbook and believe I have a solution, which is to run R and the Rcmdr in a terminal window. When I did this, the Rcmdr behaved normally. I'll investigate further and report my findings back to the list. I'm copying this message to Simon

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with Rcmdr via XQuartz on OSX Mavericks

2013-11-20 Thread John Fox
Dear Peter, Thank you very much for taking a look at this problem and for confirming that the problem is general to tcltk. I coincidentally just send a message to the list with the same conclusion -- that the problem occurs in R.app but not in a terminal window. Best, John On Wed, 20 Nov

[R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing ncdf4, in Homebrew R

2013-11-20 Thread Tobey Carman
Hi - I am not sure if this is the right place for this question. I am fairly new to R and still figuring out how to best manage packages. If this is not the best venue for this question, please direct me elsewhere. I am trying to install the ncdf4 R package using: install.packages('ncdf4')

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing ncdf4, in Homebrew R

2013-11-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/11/2013 20:49, Tobey Carman wrote: Hi - I am not sure if this is the right place for this question. I am fairly new to R and still figuring out how to best manage packages. If this is not the best venue for this question, please direct me elsewhere. It will do, but 'the homebrew version

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing ncdf4, in Homebrew R

2013-11-20 Thread Kevin Ushey
Hi Tobey, I'm running R on Mac OS X, installed netcdf from Homebrew, and I run into the same problem when installing ncdf from source. I see one obvious error in the configure step (my guess is you are having a similar error, but without your configure output we can't know): netcdf.m4: about

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with Rcmdr via XQuartz on OSX Mavericks

2013-11-20 Thread peter dalgaard
On 20 Nov 2013, at 22:24 , Manuel Spínola mspinol...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much John. How can I run R and Rcmdr in a terminal window? [Kids these days...] Just open the Terminal application (it’s in the Utilities subfolder of the Applications folder) and type R at its prompt.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problem installing ncdf4, in Homebrew R

2013-11-20 Thread Tobey Carman
Hi Kevin - You are right, I do have the same syntax error and same final rpath, with the only difference that I have netcdf 4.2.1.1 I had seen that yesterday, but forgot about it I have now tried install.packages('ncdf4') with R 3.0.0 and R 3.0.2, with identical results (except r3.0.0 uses cc,

[R-SIG-Mac] java quit unexpectedly while opening multiple Quartz devices

2013-11-20 Thread Francesco Novelli
Hallo everybody, I'm doing an econometric analysis with R and I've written a script which automatically opens multiple Quartz devices I need to visually inspect. Unfortunately I often (i.e., not always and not following any pattern I'm able to recognize) get a Java error which causes the Java