On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:47 PM, John Fox wrote:
Dear Sarah,
It seems likely from the message that you reported that the problem isn't
directly related to the Rcmdr package, but rather to the tcltk package on
which the Rcmdr depends. Your student (and the other students who are
Sarah,
note that 10.7.2 is way old - there have been many patch releases since then so
first thing I'd suggest is to run Software Update. XQuartz doesn't remove
system X11 if installed, so it's not necessarily relevant (it depends on the
local setup) - OS updates may be more important here.
On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:04 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:47 PM, John Fox wrote:
Dear Sarah,
It seems likely from the message that you reported that the problem isn't
directly related to the Rcmdr package, but rather to the tcltk package on
which the Rcmdr depends.
On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:05 AM, John Fox wrote:
Dear David,
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:04:18 -0700
David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote:
On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:47 PM, John Fox wrote:
. . .
It also seems apparent from the error message that there's a mismatch
between the version
Dear Simon,
Thank you very much for these clarifications (and also for responding to
David and Sarah's posts in this thread). I think that I understand what's
going on now, and will add a note to the Rcmdr installation instructions to
run Software Update prior to installing R, the Rcmdr, and (if
Dear Simon,
OK -- thanks for the further clarification.
If you can bear with me a bit longer, I've drafted an update to the Rcmdr
installation notes, the relevant part of which now reads as follows --
[link] represents a hyperlink:
-- snip ---
. . .
These instructions
Thank you John, David and Simon for your helpful posts.
John - I think your instructions were revised after I sent my coursepacks
to the printers. I base my instructions on yours, but take out the parts
about inserting the Mac OS X install disc because the probability my
students (75 mostly
Dear Simon,
That's a good suggestion. In fact, I don't see a real function for the
technical details, so I've just eliminated them. I also think that adding
the step to run Software Update is harmless and a good idea, so I've added
that. The full set of instructions (including the parts that I
John,
On Sep 19, 2013, at 10:29 AM, John Fox wrote:
Dear Simon,
Thank you very much for these clarifications (and also for responding to
David and Sarah's posts in this thread). I think that I understand what's
going on now, and will add a note to the Rcmdr installation instructions to
Running the Software Update and reinstalling R and Rcmdr worked for the
student with the 10.7.2. We did not reinstall XQuartz. Now I will see if it
works for the others. BTW - I have identified at least one student with a
10.6.8 who had no problems installing R and Rcmdr without installing
XQuartz
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 a
Mac 10.6.8
Running the
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