Re: [R-SIG-Mac] getting WriteXLS to work or else choosing file encoding of csv files output from R

2010-12-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Denis Chabot wrote: Hi, Until now, I have always been happy to export dataframes using write.csv2. The only drawback was than they often include accented vowels and Excel on Mac seems to ONLY be able to properly understand MacRoman encoding. So I used OpenOffice instead t

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing Mac packages from a directory of .tgz files

2011-01-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 15-01-2011, at 07:39, Murray Jorgensen wrote: Well, still no responses, but I'm further along the trail. I decided that I must need that 'PACKAGES' file so I went back to CRAN and got it, and placed it in my /Applications/tgz12.1/ folder. Thi

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing Mac packages from a directory of .tgz files

2011-01-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Murray Jorgensen wrote: On 15/01/2011 9:35 p.m., Berend Hasselman wrote: ... install.packages(pkgs=c("foreach_1.3.0.tgz"),lib=.libPaths()[2],repos=NULL) Repeat for other packages ( you can also set pkgs=c("pkg1.tgz", "pkg2.tgz",...) ) good luck Berend OK, thanks Be

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Missing labels has been reported several times, and AFAIK has always indicated a corrupt font cache (or other problems in the font book). There are various ways to repair that, so I'll leave you to Google for one. On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Phillip Jardine wrote: Tena, I had the same problem myse

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz

2011-01-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
ng a new Macbook Air with even less vertical physical size? Please respond to this Tena. Finally, this was using R-2.12.1, compiled by myself, running from the terminal but using the quartz device. Kasper On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Missing labels has been reported

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-Gui Data Manager problem

2011-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, huang min wrote: Hi all, Ever since R.2.12.0, the Data Manager doesn't work in the menu Packages & Data. Is it my own problem or the R's? None of those. The bug is in R.app, a separate project (with a separate group of maintainers). 'htmlhelp' was deprecated in 2.10.0,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] newbie mac question

2011-01-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Hi, I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work with it. Oooh .. jealous :-) I've never had a Mac of any kind before but have used Windows and Ubuntu. Could you recommend any "baby Mac" references for me, please? Don't rea

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Reading a MySQL table into R

2011-01-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Luca Meyer wrote: Hello, I should first mention that I am not familiar with database management tools, nor with database solutions for Mac OS X. I currently have some data sitting on a MySQL Server version 5.0.51a-24+

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] nlme (or base) problem

2011-02-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Adelchi Azzalini wrote: library(nlme) does not load, this is what I get: R> library(nlme) Error in .Call("R_lazyLoadDBfetch", key, file, compressed, hook, PACKAGE = "base") : C symbol name "R_lazyLoadDBfetch" not in DLL for package "base" However the probleme could be in

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgeos install

2011-03-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Andrew Bevan wrote: Dear list I am having problems installing rgeos from the R-forge site. It seems to install okay for the 64-bit version of R but not for the 32-bit version for some reason. For the latter, I get the following errors: -- Vi

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] system command in OS X failed when ampersand was added to command

2011-03-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Noah Lorang wrote: I'm not able to replicate using the same setup on several computers, either with R.app or R running in the terminal, so it's likely something highly specific to your setup. I'd suggest reinstalling or upgrading R and see if the problem goes away. The cl

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] would parallel computing help?

2011-03-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is an example of 'embarrassingly parallel' computation. Simply run each chain in a separate process in parallel. Packages such as snow or multicore can organize that for you. However, if you mean logistic regression (there are other binomial regressions such as probit), first check how

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R console Mac

2011-03-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Brandon Hurr wrote: Kristian, Not sure if it can be done in R gui, but I've been using Rstudio lately and it seems to have this feature. I've only used it for about a week though so I'm not sure if it's really a good IDE yet or not. http://www.rstudio.org/ Credit where

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GCC v. LLVM

2011-03-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Anirban Mukherjee wrote: Folks, I was wondering what the forward plans are for R on Mac vis-a-vis apple-gcc/Clang. Xcode 4 was just released with LLVM 2.x. From what I can tell, Apple will in the future only support Clang/LLVM. For now, I believe they are still including th

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GCC v. LLVM

2011-03-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
'Universal' is a moveable feast. For Tiger, it seemed to be 4 archs (i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64), We now have 3, and at some point soonish there will be 2 (no ppc) once Leopard support goes. I've not seen a (powered up) PowerPC machine for at least a year, but quite a few 10.5 systems (indeed,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Here's what Steve said

2011-03-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 20-03-2011, at 20:49, Tracy Lightcap wrote: Simon: I sent part of your post to Steve Jobs and he wrote back (!). Here's what he said. Is he still dancing around the issue about gfortran? I would say yes. Can Apple guarantee that Intel Fortra

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] system('man R') works in Mac unix R but not in GUI R

2011-03-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Joseph Kunkel wrote: Using  R 2.12.2 GUI 1.36 Leopard build 64-bit (5691) system('man R') gives error: 'No manual entry for R' ...  ?? Running R in a unix window the system('man R') function provides the expec

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgl for r-devel (2.14.0)?

2011-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: This is not really what you are asking about, but note that you are using the wrong R if you are trying to make sure your package will work with soon-to-be-released R-2.13. You need to check out from branches-2-13 and not from trunk. I suspect

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Probleme with libpng

2011-03-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Why do you think the KernSmooth package has anything to do with this? (I am its maintainer and it does not used libpng.) Load it first, and you should see that png() works when it is loaded. Be careful when you make accusations on public fora that they are honest and truthful! On Thu, 31 Ma

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-Sweave problem

2011-04-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Dr. Riccardo Romoli wrote: Hi to all the list member, I have a problem using Sweave. I use R, LaTeX and Sweave witin EMACS. Recently when I create an Rnw file, EMACS use all the resources to fontifying and Setting up the syntax table for at least 5 minutes meanwhile I can't

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problem checking packages with R 2.13.0

2011-04-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, John Fox wrote: Dear list members, I'm experiencing a problem checking packages with R 2.13.0 on a new Mac OS X 10.6.7 system. As far as I can tell, R isn't finding my LaTeX installation. Packages seem to build fine. Some details follow: Assuming this is the CRAN build

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problem checking packages with R 2.13.0

2011-04-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
7 Apr 2011, John Fox wrote: Dear Kasper, -Original Message- From: Kasper Daniel Hansen [mailto:kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com] Sent: April-17-11 7:27 PM To: John Fox Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; r-sig-mac@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problem checking packages with R 2.13.0 On Sun, Ap

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] svg & cairo support in 2.12.2 and higher?

2011-04-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Try running 32-bit R on your platform: it does contain cairo support. (So does my own x86_64 build of 2.13.0: looks like there is/was a problem on the CRAN build machine. So you could also build R from the sources.) On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Sarah Berke wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this is the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] install.packages without loading tcl tk interface for mirror selection

2011-04-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, jmmi mijle wrote: Hi, Is it possible run install.packages() using the stock R Mac binary in the command line without it trying to load the tcl/tk interface to select a mirror? I'd rather just use the text-based numerical selection for the mirror and not have X11 start up ea

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgdal installation problems

2011-05-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 2 May 2011, António M. Rodrigues wrote: Hi, I'm trying to instal library rgdal in my macbook (os X 10.6.7). I have installed the latest R package (R-2.13.0.pkg). I have gdal 1.8 install. Also, I have loaded library sp which rgdal needs. I downloaded rdgal_0.6-33.tgz and using R P

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] import data Mac OS

2011-05-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Ben Bolker wrote: On 05/02/2011 09:28 AM, Thor Jensen wrote: Hello, I am unable to write a pathway to .csv files saved on my computer. I can get this to work on a windows machine, but the mac returns a message saying the file does not exist. Any tips on how to import data

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgdal installation problems

2011-05-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
hics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] sp_0.9-81 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.13.0 lattice_0.19-23 tools_2.13.0 On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 PM, António M. Rodrigues wrote: No dia 2 de Maio de 2011 11:32, Prof Brian Ripley escreve

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R plot and graphics fonts on Quartz

2011-05-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 21 May 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: Carlo, On May 21, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: This question has probably been asked to death already, I don't know yet...but when plotting using the Quartz framework on OS X, labels do not show up unless the sans font family is selected

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages failed to load

2011-05-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Carl Witthoft wrote: Just wanted to mention that I saw the same behavior with a package or two, and found the same workaround (copying libs to the 2.12 tree). Maybe, but this is about the recommended package 'class'. In the CRAN distribution oF R 2.13.0 tystie% otool -

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages failed to load - Now fixed

2011-05-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It's really odd that people blog about their own inefficient scripts rather than read the R documentation. Because this scripts checks (very inefficiently) if a package is already installed, it would not solve the problem discussed in this thread. And install.packages() takes a vector of pack

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages failed to load - Now fixed

2011-05-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
ry than to hunt-and-peck for only the packages that aren't installed by default. I'll submit that suggestion to r-wind...@r-project.org separately. - Tom On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:58, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: It's really odd that people blog about their own inefficient scrip

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] building a package on a Mac: pdflatex

2011-07-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
And note too that this is looking first for a script texi2dvi. If you have that, *it* will look for pdflatex, possibly already knowing where to look. Also note that both the usual texi2dvi and tools::texi2dvi will consult environment variables such as PDFLATEX. If you have a standard Mac Te

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] building a package on a Mac: pdflatex

2011-07-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Federico Calboli wrote: On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:26, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: which texi2dvi /usr/bin/texi2dvi and $:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls texi* texindy but no texi2dvi. I did ask other mactex users and they also do not have texi2dvi Well, I have

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] building a package on a Mac: pdflatex

2011-07-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
directly. And that this is all in the R-admin manual. On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 05-07-2011, at 17:39, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Federico Calboli wrote: On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:26, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: which texi2dvi /usr/bin/texi2dvi and $:/usr

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] bug in R.app GUI 1.40 for Mac when running R (Under development (unstable)

2011-07-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Another issue: I believe that tail-area computations in mvtnorm use the random number generator: that calculation certainly sets .Random.seed. So to be reproducible, you need to specify the seed. We've over the years encountered occasional random segfaults in mvtnorm on several platforms (cer

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Bug with x11(), Lion and CRAN R 2.13.1

2011-07-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is not peculiar to Lion: it does seem something about Apple's X11 notifier and I've seen it quite often over the years on Leopard ... On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Konis Kjell wrote: Hello, I have just installed R 2.13.1 on a clean install of Lion on a 3 year old iMac with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo. Whe

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app cannot see tar but R (console) can

2011-07-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
And R itself (on any Unix-alike) sets the standard environment variable TAR, so why not simply use it, e.g. system2(Sys.getenv("TAR"), )) Or use utils::untar etc. On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 01-08-2011, at 06:15, wrote: If I run system('tar') within the console ver

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Unicode characters in script?

2011-08-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Michael Hoban wrote: Hi all- I tried searching before posting, but this is one of those tricky questions to search for. My issue is this: within the R.app gui, I can use extended characters in plot labels without any issu

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] turn off text transforms

2011-08-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Timothy Bates wrote: hi all, if I enter the following into R.app 1/8 x 248.70 I get Error: unexpected symbol in "1/8 x” Because OS text entry is transforming 1/8 into ⅛. I don't think so: do you have any evidence for that? R.app gives the same message as any other v

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Old (versions of) packages

2011-09-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You can transfer installed packages without compiled code from one platform to another. For packages with compiled code, you will need to get the old versions and compile from the sources. For CRAN old versions are available at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive Just what part of

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Using the Aqua Tcl/Tk theme by default on Mac OS

2011-09-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Hi all! Title says most of my question. ;-) This is something I'm experiencing when using Rcmdr. For a probably good reason, it is run inside X11 instead of being a native Mac application. I guess this is why Tk doesn't detect it would better use

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Using the Aqua Tcl/Tk theme by default on Mac OS

2011-09-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le vendredi 23 septembre 2011 à 10:01 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : That theme is only available in Mac builds of Tk, not X11 ones. Ah, I see. Sad. :-/ You can build R for yourself to use Mac Tcl/Tk (I tend to use the ActiveTcl

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Screen device under macOS X

2011-10-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: This has everything to do with your configuration. I don't know why R does not do this out of the box when build with quartz support, but I It does for me, using either the CRAN build or my own build. See the code in src/library/grDevices/R/zzz.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R_LIBS + .Rprofile: how to get a specific library in .libPaths()[1]

2011-10-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You are taking the contents of a .Renviron file and putting it in .Rprofile. There is a whole section at the help page you quote about not confusing the two On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Marius Hofert wrote: Dear all, I would like to use my own library for packages. It should go in /Library/F

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Font Families and Cairo

2011-10-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fong Chun Chan wrote: Hi, I've been searching around the web and I found this thread which discusses exactly the same problem that I am facing when using Cairo on my Mac. When Oh you are using a Mac! You failed to say that in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-O

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Difficulty installing package that works on Windows

2011-10-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Burgette, Lane wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having problems installing a package locally from source on my Mac. It was developed on a Windows 7 machine (x86-64) and loads without incident under Windows (both x86-32 and x86-64) and Linux. When I try to install, it steps throu

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problem installing geepack package

2011-10-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is something you need to take up with the geepack maintainer (who is also the doBy maintainer). I find his misuse of Depends ridiculous: we have Suggests and Enhances for such loose dependencies. You can easily get snow, as a source or a binary package. Did you update your packages? Sev

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] source from clipboard

2011-11-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
?clipboard in R has a whole section on this. Please do follow the posting guide and do your homework before posting. On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Adrian Dusa wrote: Dear All, Apologies for noob questions, under Linux (and Windows) I extensively used: source("clipboard") in order to paste commands

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Error while loading packages R 2.14.0

2011-11-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Riccardo Romoli wrote: Hi, I have already installed R 2.14.0 and I have some problem to load several packages, in particular xcms package. I installed it directly from the GUI and when I try to load it the R I have: library(xcms) Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpat

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] error while loading 'gstat' on R 2.14.0

2011-11-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
See the list archives. Are you doing this in R.app, and have you updated R 2.14.0 recently? On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Edmund Har wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install gstat 1.0-8 on R version 2.14.0 (32-bit) on my MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.8). I downloaded the binary package from CRAN website and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Hmisc doesn't load

2011-11-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
See the list archives. Are you doing this in R.app, and have you updated R 2.14.0 recently? On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Michael Kubovy wrote: After installing the Hmisc package in terminal: [mks-Mac-Pro:~/Downloads/14-11-11] mk% R CMD INSTALL Hmisc_3.9-0.tar .Rprofile: Setting US repository Loading

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.14.0 on MacBook Pro

2011-11-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Please select a real CRAN mirror, not a broken one. On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Christopher Giguere wrote: Hello everyone, I am working on a Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549). I need to install the package * fracdiff*. When I first ran into an issue I upgraded to R version 2.14 and tried to install again. Eac

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] saving files using quartz engine

2011-11-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Denis Chabot wrote: Hi, is there a reason that the quartz device does not like the "~" in file names, whereas most functions handling files (including pdf() ) have no problem with it? Yes. [Hint: no one contributed a patch for this wishlist item. The authors of mainstr

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] manually load package

2011-11-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Did you have a question? Your posting is two unconnected fragments. How to install source packages is described in the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'. You didn't tell us where you ran this, but very likely you need "~/Desktop/Design_2.3-0.tar.gz". But why not open a terminal and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Updating packages after updating R

2011-11-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 24/11/2011 16:17, christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Everybody I have updated to R 2.14 today from version 2.11 by installing the binary from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/. As the posting guide points out, there are no such versions of R. Have you read it? Is there an easy way to make u

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cannot install RPostgreSQL from source but I have gcc

2011-11-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Nov 25, 2011, at 2:52 AM, christiaan pauw wrote: Hi Everybody Im on Mac OS X 10.6.6 $ sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.6.6 BuildVersion: 10J3210 I am trying to install the latest version of JavaGD from source using the GUI Pac

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Any script to package a built R binary to a Mac OS X installer?

2011-12-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 21/12/2011 19:49, Sang Chul Choi wrote: First, I apologize for sending this duplicate message to r-sig-gui. I thought that was the mailing list I should send questions about Mac GUI. I found that this r-sig-mac mailing list was the right place to ask the following question. Thank you. --

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] LogicReg package problems

2012-01-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
What precise OS and which architecture is this (see the posting guide)? AFAIK LogicReg will install on x86_64 on a Mac (nowadays the default for most people) but not the 32-bit architectures. It predefines some very large arrays: try reducing LGCn1MAX (twice) in slogic.f . It then works for

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Multiple R versions: set Current via symbolic link: permissions?

2012-01-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/01/2012 01:22, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Hi Peter, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Peter Carr wrote: I, too, would like to run multiple versions of R, via command line, on Mac OS X. I have looked in vain for a clear explanation of why there can be one and only one 'Current' version of R ru

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ERROR in R+Lion+X11: could not find any X11 fonts

2012-01-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/01/2012 12:22, Emilio Molinari wrote: Hi, after googling around I surrender and post to this list. Can you please follow the posting guide and tell us your sessionInfo() (and are you using R.app or R, the command-line version?). That your locale is not recognized by X11 may be signifi

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ERROR in R+Lion+X11: could not find any X11 fonts

2012-01-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
ttached packages: [1] kohonen_2.0.9 MASS_7.3-16 class_7.3-3 and, I am Running R in command line. thank you. emilio On 25 Jan , 2012, at 12:32, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 25/01/2012 12:22, Emilio Molinari wrote: Hi, after googling around I surrender and post to this list. Can you pleas

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] OSX Binary Installation and testInstalledPackages()

2012-02-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Yes, it was added on Windows at user request (including the ability to install the tests directory from sources). But as the Windows installers have much finer-grained granularity controlling what should be installed, people worried about space could skip it (and AFAIR it is not installed by d

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] finding things in R manuals

2012-02-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you have multiple versions of R installed it is really convenient that they contain the appropriate manuals. I have an archive back to 2.0.0 (and a few before) that I consult surprisingly often. Our dept builds for Linux have always done 'make install install-pdf', and I think the argument

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] How to avoid this error: the following objects are masked from 'package: boot'

2012-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 27/02/2012 15:50, Jeffrey Ryan wrote: Not really a mac question at all. It isn't an error message either, it is a warning to alert you to the fact that two objects are now called the same thing and you may not be seeing the one you originally expected (now that the latter package is 'masking'

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ESC key and STOP button not working in R 2.14.1

2012-02-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 29/02/2012 00:02, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:41 PM, bugreport19621...@fastmail.fm wrote: The most recent email on this appears to be https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2012-January/008967.html which says, "the most recent GUI is back to the old behavior." D

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages from source for all installed sub-architectures

2012-03-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 06/03/2012 01:24, Simon Urbanek wrote: Dan, On Mar 5, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: Hello, Are there plans to modify install.packages() on Mac so that if type="source", the package is installed for all installed sub-architectures? This works for Windows. Currently, install.packa

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing packages from source for all installed sub-architectures

2012-03-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Sorry, it appears that --merge-multiarch never got released except for Windows. We can certainly finish that off. On 06/03/2012 06:31, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 06/03/2012 01:24, Simon Urbanek wrote: Dan, On Mar 5, 2012, at 7:09 PM

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems installing packages on Lion

2012-03-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 10/03/2012 00:53, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: Oh -- perhaps I was ambiguous and I apologize for any confusion that caused: I meant to just build the package himself from source so that it would match his architecture, hence why gfortran wouldn't be needed as it would to build R. Incidentally,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cannit get list of binary packages from the GUI

2012-03-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote: Federico Calboli imperial.ac.uk> writes: Apologies, I forgot to say, I have R 2.14.2, latest 64-bit GUI from http://r.research.att.com/, OS 10.7.3 I just noticed the following weird issue. If I go to the menu 'Packages and Data', select 'Package

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cannit get list of binary packages from the GUI

2012-03-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/03/2012 23:21, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote: Federico Calboli imperial.ac.uk> writes: Apologies, I forgot to say, I have R 2.14.2, latest 64-bit GUI from http://r.research.att.com/, OS 10.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] cannit get list of binary packages from the GUI

2012-03-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 17/03/2012 11:27, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 17-03-2012, at 12:06, David Winsemius wrote: On Mar 16, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Mar 16, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 16/03/2012 12:31, Ken knoblauch wrote: Federico Calboli imperial.ac.uk> wri

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Fwd: Re: [R] Package seems to be present but library don't find it

2012-04-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-04-03 3:29 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Apr 3, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 03-04-2012, at 20:54, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 03/04/2012 1:04 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 03-04-2012, at 18:50, Duncan Murdoch wrote: This is a

[R-SIG-Mac] Building binary packages for distribution

2012-04-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I have hitherto used a Leopard system to build Mac binary packages for distribution, but that system has died and we only have Lion systems left (and the replacement hardware only runs Lion). I'm only concerned with building i386/x86_64 packages. We saw problems with packages built on Snow Le

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Building binary packages for distribution

2012-04-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Thanks, that is bad news. I really don't want to ask our sysadmins to maintain a Leopard system for the very limited amount of package building we do, so we'll have to hope this suffices. On 13/04/2012 18:05, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Apr 13, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Prof Brian Ripley

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Unexpected behavior from sprintf()

2012-04-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/04/2012 03:33, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 12-04-24 5:12 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Joran Elias wrote: I stumbled across this by accident from this StackOverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/10300325/3

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages, R-patched and RC [Was: Importing Excel files]

2012-06-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 19/06/2012 17:35, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:36 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 01:16 , Colstat wrote: I think the error says it "package Œgdata‚ was built under R version 2.15.1" and you have R 2.5.10. Update your R first, let me know if it doesn't work.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages, R-patched and RC [Was: Importing Excel files]

2012-06-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/06/2012 11:20, peter dalgaard wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 23:29 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 19/06/2012 17:35, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:36 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 01:16 , Colstat wrote: I think the error says it "package Œgdata‚ was

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages, R-patched and RC [Was: Importing Excel files]

2012-06-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Other messages say this is a temporary snafu on the Mac builder, which will be resolved once it percolates through CRAN: the master is OK already. On 23/06/2012 05:09, David Winsemius wrote: On Jun 20, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 20/06/2012 11:20, peter dalgaard wrote

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages, R-patched and RC [Was: Importing Excel files]

2012-06-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/06/2012 07:28, David Winsemius wrote: On Jun 23, 2012, at 12:50 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Other messages say this is a temporary snafu on the Mac builder, which will be resolved once it percolates through CRAN: the master is OK already. Then I must be confused. I thought this was

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Segfault with rWishart in R 2.15.1

2012-07-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It's not a Mac issue (except perhaps the crash). The author of rWishart used alloca() without checking if there is space available on the stack. For large enough arrays that blows the stack and although R can tell you that has happened, the damage has been done. We'll fix that shortly, so ta

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Segfault with rWishart in R 2.15.1

2012-07-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 04/07/2012 08:35, peter dalgaard wrote: On Jul 4, 2012, at 03:12 , Michael Braun wrote: I just upgraded to R 2.15.1, and I am getting a segmentation fault when using the rWishart function (from the stats package) to sample moderately-size matrices. Here is the output when I run R within gd

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] installXLSXsupport() error

2012-07-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/07/2012 17:17, Davor Cubranic wrote: You didn't have to go through the command line. In the R GUI's package installer, if you switched package repository to "CRAN (sources)", you would have found XLConnect there too. You don't mention the version of OS X you're running, but for me with Lio

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Question on warnings like "wchar_t is Unicode on this platform"

2012-07-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 19/07/2012 17:14, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: Hi, [Since I have not a Windows machine at hand - I cannot say if it's a general R issue.] It's nothing to do with Windows, and everything to do with Apple's contempt for standards conformance (which these days vies with Microsoft's). I'm deali

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R and Valgrind hangs on Snow Leopard

2012-08-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Cule, Erika wrote: (Reposted in plain text, with apologies) I am having the problem described in this post: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2011-November/008848.html In summary, running Valgrind with R hangs. As in the linked case above, if a file test.R contain

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R and Valgrind hangs on Snow Leopard

2012-08-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
ss it would also work from the R session. This circumvents the system call used to remove the session temporary directory at the end of the session. On 13/08/2012 13:14, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Cule, Erika wrote: (Reposted in plain text, with apologies) I am havin

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] "SIZE_MAX is required for C99" error

2012-08-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 29/08/2012 14:52, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Aug 29, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm trying to compile a test program, written in Objective-C, that illustrates calls to R. I've installed R.framework for version 2.15.1. I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.4. I am getting the erro

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] compiling from source on ML, tcltk

2012-09-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Do you need R.app? If not, I would recommend using ActiveTcl Tcl/Tk by e.g. ./configure ... --with-tcl-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/tkConfig.sh I've been using it for some time, and it has much nicer ttk widgets. On

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] compiling from source on ML, tcltk

2012-09-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 03/09/2012 01:11, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Do you need R.app? If not, I would recommend using ActiveTcl Tcl/Tk by e.g. ./configure ... --with-tcl-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/Library

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R compile from sources: error in make with gcc-4.7

2012-09-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 13/09/2012 20:48, Simon Urbanek wrote: It seems your compiler doesn't support ObjC. You should get a working compiler... Besides, gcc-4.7.x has been reported to break so your mileage may vary even if you get Apple driver and a more complete compiler. More comments inline below. Cheers, Simon

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’

2012-09-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
With a package such as XML available from multiple repositories, you have to be very precise what you are talking about. On CRAN, there is a source package for version 3.9-4. That can be compiled for multiple architectures on a Mac, and there are such binaries on CRAN. It only works in a UT

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] error: unrecognized option ‘-arch’ -- suggestion!

2012-09-28 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 28/09/2012 15:29, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: So I had a few emails with Peder, and I think he gets it now. However, one point came up which I have been wondering about as well. In Makeconf R only stores the name of the compiler, say "gcc" or perhaps "gcc-4.2". Why not store the full path?

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] ‘package ‘XML’ is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'’

2012-09-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 29/09/2012 11:11, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:58 AM, wrote: Please, allow me to hijack this thread to put in another, for me, related question I'm trying to work out on the list. To the best of my understanding and by following the documentation when I install R b

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R Update - FAILED- HELP!!!

2012-10-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 06/10/2012 22:12, Jean Jang wrote: Apologies, I forgot to include the message from the Terminal: jeans-macbook-104:~ jean$ R R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Please try installing a current version of R from CRAN: that is several versions old and 2.15.1 is current (and 2.15.2 imminent). Do

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [R] missing gcc-42-5666.3-darwin11.pkg

2012-10-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 12/10/2012 17:50, Torben Griebe wrote: Hi there, I just wanted to install gfortran via homebrew on mac os x mountain lion. It uses the package gcc-42-5666.3-darwin11.pkg for installation. Unfortunately I recognized that this package is not available anymore. But the google cache told me that

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

2012-10-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is about lattice not using rep() correctly. There is no '2.16' and never will be (see the posting guide). From the NEWS for R-devel: \item The undocumented use \code{rep(NULL, length.out = n)} for \code{n > 0} (which returns \code{NULL}) now gives a warning. Deepayan is aware

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] GTK+ for Mac is Not Available

2012-10-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 21/10/2012 21:02, Ray DiGiacomo, Jr. wrote: Hello, I tried to download GTK+ 2.18.5 framework but the link was unavailable. To get to the dead link... Visit this site: http://r.research.att.com/ Scroll to the "Other binaries" section (on the site above) Click on the "GTK+ 2.18.5 framework"

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] accessing SQL Server 10.00.1600

2012-10-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es wrote: Hi! I'm happy using RMySQL to access a number of MySQL databases and RJDBC to PostgreSQL ones here, but now I do need to integrate data from SQL Server 10.00.1600. To the best of my knowledge and after googling for a whi

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.15.2

2012-10-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 27/10/2012 17:10, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: Hi: I see that R 2.15.2 is now available for the Mac. In some of the other R mail-lists people have mentioned having to reinstall packages when they upgraded to 2.15.2. Is this likely to be the case or should most packages that worked worked with 2.1

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 2.15.2

2012-10-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 27/10/2012 17:25, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 27/10/2012 17:10, Roy Mendelssohn wrote: Hi: I see that R 2.15.2 is now available for the Mac. In some of the other R mail-lists people have mentioned having to reinstall packages when they upgraded to 2.15.2. Is this likely to be the case or

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] drag & drop on R icon not changing directory

2012-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 06/11/2012 17:30, David Winsemius wrote: On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Ken Knoblauch wrote: Hi, just noticed this in R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-04 r61084), that dragging a file onto the R icon when starting a session is not changing to the directory of the file. sessionInfo() R versi

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