Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Experiences with macOS Sierra

2016-09-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Capitan: copy /usr/bin/xml2-config to somewhere earlier on your path (~/bin in my case) and edit line 3 from prefix=$(xcrun -show-sdk-path)/usr to prefix=/usr Best, Kasper On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk <mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>> wr

[R-SIG-Mac] Experiences with macOS Sierra

2016-09-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
So far I have encountered few problems. R.app runs but I do not normally use it so my tests were minimal. My observations are about installing packages from source. - It seems Apple has been tidying up, and I had ca 20GB more free space after upgrading (which is worthwhile on my MBA with a

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with R CMD config

2016-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 01/09/2016 00:43, Ken Beath wrote: I’m trying to use STAN which uses R CMD config to check the availability of the compilers. This works fine on my MacBook but on my iMac I have the documents on a separate hard drive. Within R CMD config it uses the location of the home folder which

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems with lzma headers file compiling R 3.3.1 under mac os x 10.7.5

2016-08-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Better advice is in the manual, at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X (although there is no guarantee that all of the binary packages will work with 10.7, many of them will). And for PCRE, at

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] RODBC

2016-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/08/2016 17:24, Emilio wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble reading into R an access table (.accdb) with a Mac OS X 10.11.6 I've created a DSN connection to my data base so when I use the odbcConnect function it returns: RODBC Connection 1 Details: case=nochange DSN=mydsn

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Experience with upgrade to 3.3.0 beta

2016-04-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 14/04/2016 03:31, David Winsemius wrote: I upgraded to 3.3.0 beta from: R-3.3-branch-mavericks-signed.pkg (70Mb, installer incl. GUI) at the suggestion of Gabor Grothendieck who wanted to know whether Ryacas would install from github in R 3.3.0. So I installed the binary that includes

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] install RNetCDF_1.8-1.tar.gz failed

2016-02-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/02/2016 19:50, Marc Girondot wrote: Dear experts... I try to install the lastest version of RNetCDF (1.8-1.tar.gz) on MacosX (El Capitan) but without success. I send you the precise procedure I have used and some tests: 1/ I have installed MacPort as described here:

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Issues with rJava on OS X El Capitan

2016-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Your Java is seriously old. Start by updating it (1.8.0_74 is current, AFAIK). I can reproduce this with the CRAN binary packages, but installing the packages from source works for me on El Capitan (using the CRAN binary R). So I suspect a problem with the CRAN binary package of rJava,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Issues with rJava on OS X El Capitan

2016-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 14/02/2016 11:24, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 14 Feb 2016, at 11:48, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: Your Java is seriously old. Start by updating it (1.8.0_74 is current, AFAIK). I can reproduce this with the CRAN binary packages, but installing the packages from

[R-SIG-Mac] detecting cores

2016-02-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
sysctl on 10.11 has options which would enable us to differentiate between logical and physical codes on parallel::detectCores --- however these are not documented in Apple's online man pages, which are for 10.9. Could someone running 10.9 and someone for 10.10 report if /usr/sbin/sysctl -n

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Removing (completely) TCl/Tk

2015-12-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 09/12/2015 16:12, Federico Calboli wrote: Hi All, I have TCL/Tk installed from the latest DMG image for R 3.2.2 I will upgrade to R 3.2.3 as soon as the DMG is available). I’d like to *completely remove* Tcl/Tk as installed by the DMG image. I can get a list of files from: pkgutil

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] svg() fails (cairo.so unable to load)

2015-10-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 18/10/2015 19:29, Marius Hofert wrote: Hi, I get ... svg(filename=(file <- "foo.svg")) Warning messages: 1: In svg(filename = (file <- "foo.svg")) : unable to load shared object '/usr/local/R/R-3.2.2_build/library/grDevices/libs//cairo.so':

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] svn update > "xcrun: error: invalid active developer path" after uipgrade to 10.11 El Capitan

2015-10-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/10/2015 09:06, Spencer Graves wrote: Hello: I'm having a problem with "svn update" (with R-Forge) that may be due to a recent upgrade to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I'm getting the following: $ svn update xcrun: error: invalid active developer path

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] function data.entry() doesn't work and generate error

2015-10-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Well, it appears that your build (which is not one of those supported here) did not include X11, and that must have been purposely excluded. So the error is correct and the warning adds information To use data.entry() you need to be using R.app, Windows or have R compiled to use X11 and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] function data.entry() doesn't work and generate error

2015-10-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 14/10/2015 12:45, peter dalgaard wrote: On 14 Oct 2015, at 11:37 , Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: Well, it appears that your build (which is not one of those supported here) did not include X11, and that must have been purposely excluded. So the error is c

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] XCode / gcc / R compatibility issues on Yosemite with XCode 7 and on El Capitan

2015-10-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 08/10/2015 02:37, Simon Urbanek wrote: Jenny, I suspect you may not have the correct information. The CRAN Mavericks binary of R is not built with gcc, it's actually build using Apple clang and we're neither using nor requiring homebrew, so most of what you are describing doesn't make

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Experiences with El Capitan

2015-10-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 05/10/2015 09:03, Mikko Korpela wrote: On 04.10.2015 19:53, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The machine which provides the 'r-devel-osx-x86_64-clang' checks on the CRAN check farm has been upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan and a complete round of checks has been run. Thank you, this is great

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems to install a package

2015-08-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 04/08/2015 08:57, peter dalgaard wrote: On 03 Aug 2015, at 23:48 , Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: Sorry, I thought it was obvious so I didn't elaborate in more detail - our Mavericks compiler binary (gfortran-4.8) itself is using more advanced instruction set so it

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] latex errors, Rd problems

2015-03-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 21/03/2015 12:38, Adrian Dușa wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: [...] I also tried R CMD Rd2pdf (in the command line), and I get this at the end: Error in texi2dvi(file = file

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] latex errors, Rd problems

2015-03-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
errors are more MacTex related than R-related at this point. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Adrian Dușa dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro mailto:dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 21/03

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex

2015-03-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: March-16-15 3:56 PM To: j...@mcmaster.ca; 'Berend Hasselman' Cc: r-sig-mac@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex Note that it not just MacTex which uses /usr/texbin. /usr/texbin is a link to /Library/TeX

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] checking for pdflatex

2015-03-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that it not just MacTex which uses /usr/texbin. /usr/texbin is a link to /Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin which is an /etc/alternatives scheme to manage multiple TeX distributions which used (prior to Yosemite, at least) to be controlled by a Systems Preferences widget. See

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Fixing configure scripts for rgeos and rgdal for OS X

2015-03-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 10/03/2015 00:18, Bill Behrman wrote: CRAN does not currently offer binaries for rgeos or rgdal for OS X Maverick+, and the configure scripts do not work for compiling these packages from source. Not true: see the 'mavericks' lines in the CRAN check summaries for those packages, and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] linker warnings

2015-01-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 30/01/2015 18:28, Jan de Leeuw wrote: In my current compiles of R-devel from source (using clang from Yosemite and gfortran from homebrew) I added -Wl,-no_compact_unwind to my LDFLAGS to get around the annoying warning create compact unwind for foo: stack subq instruction is too different

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tcltk

2014-12-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 26/12/2014 20:28, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Dec 26, 2014, at 3:25 AM, Ivan Calandra ivan.calan...@univ-reims.fr wrote: Thank you Simon for your answer. But I cannot find Xcode for MacOS 10.6... Go to https://developer.apple.com/downloads and search for Xcode 4.2 or use

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Is Yosemite now safe for most of us?

2014-12-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/12/2014 02:16, Hadley Wickham wrote: Yes, the bugs have been well and truly worked out. Worked around, more precisely. There are still bugs in Yosemite's handling of environment variables, and R = 3.1.2 has workarounds that resolve some of those. But they can still bite when building

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] dyld: Symbol not found: _R_tzname

2014-11-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I use a very similar setup (Yosemite, compilers from CLT for Xcode 6.1.1, self-built gfortran 4.9.2), and it works for me. You should see things like % nm -g lib/libR.dylib | grep tzname 0029f0c0 D _R_tzname % nm -g src/extra/tzone/libtz.a | grep tzname ada0 D _R_tzname

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R is crushing quite regularly

2014-11-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 26/11/2014 11:39, Petar Milin wrote: Hello all! Does anyone experiences quite frequent R-crushes under Mac Yosemite? Here is the ID: R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) -- Sock it to Me Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit) 0)

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Yosemite toolkit

2014-10-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 31/10/2014 17:44, Erich Neuwirth wrote: Do we already have recommendations which version of the compilers to install to be able to compile packages from source under Yosemite? In the R manuals, where they always are E.g.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] problems installing gstat

2014-10-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Come on, that's not the error you posted about a few minutes ago. This time you are using the wrong build of xts, one built for Snow Leopard it seems using an earlier version of gfortran. You need to use either the Snow Leopard or Mavericks CRAN distribution of R, and install all your

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] issues running jags

2014-10-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/09/2014 00:03, Joanna Burgar wrote: Good day, I am trying to run R2jags on R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- Frisbee Sailing. I have downloaded jags (JAGS-Mavericks-3.4.0) and successfully installed both rjags and R2jags yet for some reason when I try and load the library(rjags) I

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Failure of CLI with .Rprofile on Mac OS X

2014-09-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 21/09/2014 00:25, David Winsemius wrote: On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:15 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: Notice that we have a similar, but unresolved, bug report a month old. https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15940 I assume that the obvious things like a .Rprofile in the current

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] compile R on Mac OS 10.9.4 with cairo support

2014-08-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/08/2014 16:43, Tobias Verbeke wrote: Dear list, I'm trying to compile R from source on Mac OS 10.9.4 using the flags from https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/QA/Simon/R-build/conf.mavericks-x86_64 I untarred the following libraries from http://r.research.att.com/libs/

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] bypassing the R.app help browser?

2014-08-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 13/08/2014 15:11, peter dalgaard wrote: This isn't unique to tcltk. Anything that blocks the keyboard loop blocks the help browser too. Try e.g. opening the help for ls, type Sys.sleep(15) and watch the beach ball in the help browser as you try to scroll in it. But Sys.sleep should not be

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Mac OS X tcltk/X11 issues

2014-07-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
now have (see NEWS) • (OS X only.) Package tcltk checks if it is linked against the CRAN X11-based Tcl/Tk and if so that the Tcl/Tk component and the X11 libraries are installed. This allows more informative error messages to be given. On 15/07/2014 15:16, Prof Brian

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Mac OS X tcltk/X11 issues

2014-07-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
John talked to me about this a month ago and after some sick leave/vacation I had just got around to thinking into it. Minor points: 1) The usual way to check for OS X in the R sources is grepl(darwin, R.version$os) 2) It is perfectly possible to build R on Linuxen without X11

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tcltk not working in R 3.1.1 on MacOS X 10.9.2

2014-07-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/07/2014 21:45, Yampolsky, Lev wrote: Dear Colleagues, Attempts to use tcltk (R 3.1.1 on MacOS X 10.9.2) or any dependent library (for example qvalue) results in: library(tcltk) Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'tcltk', details: call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] HELP: R for Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks Malfunction

2014-07-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 07/07/2014 15:12, Senyo Norgbey, MD wrote: On opening terminal.app, here is my equivalent below.. Last login: Mon Jul 7 08:04:16 on console Senyo-Norgbeys-MacBook-Pro:~ sennorg$ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE=C LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_ALL=

[R-SIG-Mac] rgeos and rgdal binary packages for Mavericks

2014-05-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I have put statically-linked packages up on CRANxtras for the CRAN Mavericks distribution. To use, setRepositories(ind = c(1,6)) # so you get the dependencies from CRAN install.packages(c('rgeos', 'rgdal')) [It is nothing like so easy to do from the R.app menus.] rgdal is compiled against

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Problems loading rgeos and rgdal binary packages for Mavericks

2014-05-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
-15 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_3.1.0 lattice_0.20-29 tools_3.1.0 On 12 May 2014, at 09:44, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: I have put statically-linked packages up on CRANxtras for the CRAN Mavericks distribution. To use, setRepositories(ind = c(1,6

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] invalid digital signature for R-3.1.0-mavericks

2014-05-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Two possibilities from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11958643/how-do-i-prevent-the-the-package-was-signed-with-an-invalid-certificate-warnin : 1) Your security settings might allow only downloads from the App Store (look at System Preferences | Security Privacy | General). 2) Your

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgdal on mac os 10.9

2014-04-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 30/04/2014 13:56, Rainer M Krug wrote: If I remember correctly, the installation from source was quite easy: apart from the usual compilers, you need gdal installed, which installs easily via homebrew [1]. After this, installation of rgdal from source worked without any additional

[R-SIG-Mac] Choosing between Snow Leopard and Mavericks builds

2014-04-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I've noticed some confusion about which CRAN installer package to use, and even reluctance to update to 3.1.0. So some pointers for Mavericks users 1) AFAIK no users are going to be worse off using the Snow Leopard build of 3.1.0 rather than the only (Snow Leopard) build of 3.0.x. 2) The

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Package spdep Compilation Failed on Mac 10.9, R 3.1.0

2014-04-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 21/04/2014 21:44, Allen Lin wrote: Hi all, I am new to this community so sorry if this question has already been answered. Yes, in the R-admin manual. 'The current CRAN ‘Mavericks’ distribution of R is built using CC=clang CXX=clang++ F77=gfortran-4.8 FC=$F77 OBJC=clang with clang and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.2/3.0.3 source install problems on OS X 10.9.2

2014-03-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/03/2014 07:40, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 11-03-2014, at 05:32, Bryan Renne bre...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Simon: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Simon Urbanek simon.urba...@r-project.org wrote: Bryan, based on the gist output I think I have a candidate - please check that you're

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Suggested New Mac for Heavy R Use

2014-03-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 11/03/2014 16:40, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Stephen B. Cox myrddin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone had any experience running fairly intensive analysis on a new MacPro? I am looking to upgrade my desktop, and 80% of my time is spent in RStudio/Latex/Sweave... working

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] building 32-bit version of R 3.x

2014-02-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/02/2014 08:16, Alexy Khrabrov wrote: I have a niche reason to build a 32-bit version of R. I'm playing with F# on Mono on Mac OSX, and specifically with Deedle, a data frame implementation in F#. There's an RProvider, a type provider in F# -- a higher-level way to provide a set of

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] architecture problems for BUILD SHLIB

2014-01-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
-arch i386 is not specified in R itself (and neither is gcc-4.0). As a guess you have a personal Makevars file, either in the package sources or under ~/.R . See http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Customizing-package-compilation . On 06/01/2014 14:14, Dan Rabosky

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

2013-12-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
? Regards, Rob J. Goedman goed...@icloud.com On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:00 AM, peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Nov 2013, at 12:37 , Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: This does not happen for me provided R.app is visible. From https://developer.apple.com/library/mac

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

2013-11-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This does not happen for me provided R.app is visible. From https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_9.html 'An app is considered to be a candidate for sleep if: It is not visible—if all of an app’s windows are either hidden by other

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R installation on 32-bit Mac OS X

2013-11-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 22/11/2013 01:15, Ann Summy wrote: Why are there separate Mac-GUI-* installation files when the R* pkg files contain the R-app GUI already? I'm looking in this directory http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/. You missed http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/index-old.html . Or is

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] [r] - R 3.0.2 - Mac OSX 10.8.5 - XML package - AntiVirus reports corrupt file

2013-11-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 13/11/2013 09:45, Dimitrios Chryssanthakopoulos wrote: Hello, Sophos AntiVirus reports the following: 2013-11-13 01:58:07 +0200 Corrupt file: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/XML/exampleData/dtd.zip Should I worry? I cannot judge the operation or performance of the XML

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [r] - R 3.0.2 - Mac OSX 10.8.5 - XML package - AntiVirus reports corrupt file

2013-11-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 13/11/2013 11:46, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 13/11/2013 09:45, Dimitrios Chryssanthakopoulos wrote: Hello, Sophos AntiVirus reports the following: 2013-11-13 01:58:07 +0200 Corrupt file: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/XML/exampleData/dtd.zip Should I worry? I cannot

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Updating to Mavericks

2013-10-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
explicitly. Similarly calling gfortran-4.2 explicitly to avoid any other versions (and I would even consider using /usr/local/bin/gfortran-4.2). -pd On 30 Oct 2013, at 15:38 , Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: This is an attempt to collect together various pieces of advice. If you

[R-SIG-Mac] Updating to Mavericks

2013-10-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is an attempt to collect together various pieces of advice. If you update to Mavericks and want to compile packages (or run some) with the CRAN binary R, you will need to - Update R to 3.0.2 or later if you use R.app. - Re-install XQuartz. The Mavericks update re-populates /usr/X11

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cairo / X11 problem in Mavericks

2013-10-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 29/10/2013 01:20, Jeroen Ooms wrote: R exists with a warning that X11 is required. You need to re-install XQuartz after an update. See the R-admin manual. I'm not sure I understand (apologies, I'm not really a mac user). We are using these devices in non-interactive R sessions (RApache,

[R-SIG-Mac] C++ and Mavericks

2013-10-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It was not clear from any of the documentation that Xcode 5.0.1 for 10.8 and for 10.9 use (by default) essentially separate C++ toolchains. Both are based on clang++ 3.3svn which is Apple parlance for 'some version less than 3.3 and lacking some 3.2 features'. But they have different headers

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cairo / X11 problem in Mavericks

2013-10-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 27/10/2013 19:45, Jeroen Ooms wrote: I just upgraded my macbook to maverick and i'm running into an old problem. When I do: png(tempfile(), type=cairo) or svg(tempfile()) or even: library(Cairo) R exists with a warning that X11 is required. I also tried: options(bitmapType = 'cairo')

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] mac mavericks problem

2013-10-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
To clarify, I think the issue is that R.app from 3.0.1 crashes on this error (and maybe any error) on Mavericks for the temple.edu student. We need to see if 3.0.2 does so too, but I see no change in the code which would lead me to expect a difference. On 24/10/2013 17:46, Federico Calboli

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] error trying to exec 'f951': execvp: No such file or directory

2013-10-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
. On 22/10/2013, at 8:19 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 22/10/2013 05:15, John Maindonald wrote: In trying to install the randomForest package from source under r-devel (2013-10-20 r64082) You have your compilers set up incorrectly. I get [R.app GUI 1.62 (6580) x86_64

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Erroneous zeros in results using Matrix package

2013-10-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 15/10/2013 20:37, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Braun, Michael wrote: I suppose that is true. But the problem does not occur in smaller examples. It only occurs when working with very large matrices. That's the whole point. And to be fair, I did warn the members of

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Automatically detecting and setting CXX compiler using configure/Makevars

2013-10-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is documented in the current manuals: please read them. I posted how to get the compilers used for the CRAN binary, on this list when Xcode 5 was released (it is for Mountain Lion only): https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2013-September/010327.html Otherwise see e.g.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Bug in data editor

2013-09-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 28/09/2013 13:50, Duncan Murdoch wrote: The bug https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15463 appears to be R.app specific. All of the data editors (R.app, X11, Windows) round the data for display, but the one in R.app appears to reload the data from the rounded values,

[R-SIG-Mac] Xcode 5

2013-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Xcode was released last week, although it did not show up as an update for me until this. It may be available only for Mountain Lion: the command-line tools seems only to be. As expected, the compilers used for the CRAN binary build, llvm-gcc-4.2 and llvm-g++-4.2, are not part of Xcode 5.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Xcode 5

2013-09-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
-gcc-4.2. I assume this is now the recommended tool and I should switch? It has been the recommended toolchain since R 3.0.0. If you use the CRAN binary, it will use those compilers. If not, use what you like. Best, Kasper On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] XQuartz

2013-09-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
And what does any of this have to do with XQuartz? That is the third-party X11 server/sub-system for OS X. Perhaps the quartz() device was meant For the sake of those reading the archives, can we have a much clearer statement of the actual problem? There might be better solutions,

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 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] [Caution: Message contains Suspicious URL content] R 3.0.1 build from sources: Wrong library paths

2013-09-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 13/09/2013 07:52, Anirban MUKHERJEE wrote: Hi Simon, On a related note, there has been progress on openmp in llvm/clang: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTQ0NjQ http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-August/065169.html http://clang-omp.github.io/ That might be

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] [Caution: Message contains Suspicious URL content] R 3.0.1 build from sources: Wrong library paths

2013-09-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
CRAN package checks: CRAN does it daily so it must be possible. Best Simon On Sep 13, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 13/09/2013 07:52, Anirban MUKHERJEE wrote: Hi Simon, On a related note, there has been progress on openmp in llvm/clang: http

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R on Mac: framework or homebrew?

2013-09-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 12/09/2013 17:15, MacQueen, Don wrote: I've been using R on OS X probably ever since there was an R on OS X, and like you I use it from the command line. In the early days I installed R from sources, but quite a few years ago I switched to using the framework version. I can't think of any

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Trouble with tcltk

2013-09-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 03/09/2013 11:21, Michael Kubovy wrote: Many packages require tcltk. I have installed http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/tcltk-8.5.5-x11.pkg and yet, when I try That is the wrong version for R 3.0.1, so please remove it. You may need to re-install R, as that ships with the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rglpk package

2013-08-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 19/08/2013 05:02, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Aug 18, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Michael Weylandt wrote: On Aug 18, 2013, at 15:47, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Horst R. Wolf wrote: Is there any reason why the OS X binary is still not available?

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] hidden files and directories

2013-08-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 06/08/2013 01:16, David Winsemius wrote: On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Rohmatul Fajriyah wrote: Dear All, I tried to build an R package (from the terminal) and everything was ok until R CMD check PackageName and I got this message: .. * checking for hidden files and directories ...

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] hidden files and directories

2013-08-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
*From:* Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk *To:* David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net *Cc:* Rohmatul Fajriyah rfajri...@yahoo.com; r-sig-mac@r-project.org r-sig-mac@r-project.org *Sent:* Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:06 AM *Subject:* Re: [R-SIG-Mac] hidden files and directories On 06

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing igraph

2013-06-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 27/06/2013 14:32, Thomas wrote: I've been given an old Mac to run some R programs on and I'm having trouble setting up. I just need to get igraph working It's OS X 10.5.6 and I have installed R 2.15.3 plus the copy of XCode that came on the DVD. For some reason I can't use the package

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] rgl crashes after one successful draw on R.app

2013-05-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 30/05/2013 02:27, Bryan Hanson wrote: Unfortunately, I already have XQuartz 2.7.4 and it gives the problem I reported. :-( Bryan But as I said way back in this thread, there are two different rgl devices and this trhead has conflated two problems, on in each. Roger was using the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Same code, working with R.app Mac GUI 1.61 (R 3.0.1), not with R 3.0.1 from terminal

2013-05-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 29/05/2013 14:12, Nathan Uyttendaele wrote: Hello, I have a very peculiar problem to share. I wrote a (rather) large R function that also includes some C code. When I run it with R.app Mac GUI 1.61 (R 3.0.1), no problem at all. When I run it from R 3.0.1 from terminal (on the same Mac), I

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R-3.0.0: choice of gfortran compiler in install.packages()

2013-05-09 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that the recommended CRAN gfortran *does* go into /usr/local. This one: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/gfortran-4.2.3.pkg as described at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#OS-X . That's for R 3.0.0: other versions were recommended for earlier

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing R-3.0.0 RC (2013/03/30, r62448) installs tcl/tk in /local

2013-03-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 31/03/2013 09:18, Berend Hasselman wrote: I've just installed R-3.0.0 RC. I noticed that tcl/tk 8.6 was installed in /local. Shouldn't this be /usr/local? Yes, and has been reported. Can I just remove /local? Not if you want to use package tcltk. Copy it over /usr/local. Berend

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Compiling R-packages on Mac

2013-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 30/03/2013 11:29, Petar Milin wrote: Hello ALL! I am a newbie on Mac, with long Linux experience (Ubuntu, than Debian, finally Fedora, for many years). R on Mac is very pleasant and works nicely. However, I noticed something strange, while I was trying to compile a package on which my

[R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
R 3.0.0 is due to be released on Apr 3, and is now in beta. Simon is travelling but before he left put up a binary distribution at http://r.research.att.com/snowleopard/R-3.0-branch/R-3.0-branch-snowleopard-signed.pkg . A high proportion of CRAN is available as binary packages, and we will

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
beloved of g++'s lack of C++ standards conformance, and quite a high proportion of C++-using packages do not compile with clang++ (nor the Solaris CC). Kasper On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: R 3.0.0 is due to be released on Apr 3, and is now

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R 3.0.0 beta

2013-03-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 20/03/2013 14:38, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 20/03/2013 14:14, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: I have heard rumors of GCC 4.7.2, has this been abandoned? At least for 3.0.0. It did not work well enough

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] .../x86_64/ldpaths: No such file or directory after installing R-devel build

2013-03-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/03/2013 12:25, Richard D. Morey wrote: I installed the OSX R-devel 3.0 build, in pkg format, today from here: http://r.research.att.com/#nightly The postflight installation script breaks it. This has been reported: you need either to install from the sources or wait for tomorrow.

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] issues with browseEnv, drag drop

2013-03-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 05/03/2013 03:41, Peter Dixon wrote: Hi - I'm not sure that this is precisely a Mac issue, but in a fresh install of R 2.15.2, I get the error: Error in browseEnv(html = F) : could not find function invsible whenever I open the workspace browser from the menu bar. This seems to be a typo

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Darwin open and '--vanilla' for R.app

2013-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You are attributing documentation for R to R.app, a separate project not part of the R sources. R.app calls R with arguments --no-save --no-restore --gui=aqua, and does not pass its own arguments on. A fluent speaker of Objective C could change this easily enough. On 26/02/2013 14:02, Ben

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Buffering console output in R.app

2013-02-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 25/02/2013 20:00, Davor Cubranic wrote: R.app GUI 1.53 (6335 Leopard build 64-bit) and R 2.15.2 GUI 1.53 Leopard build 64-bit (6335) When I have a long-running call into C or C++, any output I try to print to the console with Rprintf or REprintf appears only after control returns to R,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Change Rscript to 64-bit

2013-02-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/02/2013 04:32, Alton Ing wrote: How can we change Rscript to execute in 64-bit? The following script prints i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) : #!/usr/bin/env Rscript sessionInfo()$platform I want to run RHadoop (rmr2) locally on Mac OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) but it only works with

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing biOps fails with Symbol not found: _TIFFClose

2013-02-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 19/02/2013 11:07, Dominic Steinitz wrote: Hi Brian, Thanks very much for this. You should have contacted the package maintainer as per the R posting guide. But Ok I shall do this. checking for TIFFOpen in -ltiff... no is the clue. See what config.log has to say …. I've

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing biOps fails with Symbol not found: _TIFFClose

2013-02-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 16/02/2013 16:37, Dominic Steinitz wrote: I have searched the archives and while I can find reports of this problem, I was unable to find any information on what to do to fix it. Apologies if this is already documented somewhere (and if so please point me at it). Let me know if should post

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Block indent/un-indent crashes R 3.0 RC

2013-02-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 06/02/2013 01:22, Bryan Hanson wrote: Using the GUI indent/un-indent with more than one line of code selected crashes R for the version below. Modifying only one line does not. There is no '3.0 RC' (and never will be: the version will be 3.0.0. See the posting guide). Why do you think

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] installing rgl with the 3.0 RC

2013-02-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 05/02/2013 13:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13-02-05 8:07 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote: Thanks for taking the time to look at this carefully Duncan. I don't see the warning you mention, and I don't see the string R_pretty0 in the log either. I'm appending right here in case there is something

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] installing rgl with the 3.0 RC

2013-02-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
i386 and x86_64. If you only want 64-bit packages, use R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch. On Feb 5, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On 05/02/2013 15:56, Bryan Hanson wrote: Is that something I can control? I've never had to worry about that before, never run

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Encoding issue with text output from R

2013-02-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 31/01/2013 21:15, MacQueen, Don wrote: Something like this might help: Sys.setlocale(category = LC_ALL, locale = C) check Sys.getlocale() beforehand. -Don As others have said, use options(fancyQuotes=FALSE). Please don't change all the locale settings just because of

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R packages on Mac

2013-01-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/01/13 10:27, Ross Tinsley wrote: Originally posted this on the standard mailing list and it was suggested that I post here on SIG Mac list. Have also included Beren's response who emphasised using the R.app GUI, however I am doing this as my first step. The below error message turns up

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] x11/plot issue on Mac OSX

2013-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/01/2013 02:40, m p wrote: Hello, I have R running on my Mac OSX 10.7.5 under X11 and when I interactively in R issue x11() and plot(..) it exits with messages below. I can display multiple image formats including xwd. Is that fixable under X11, how? What do you think seq(1:10) does? Add

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] packages impute

2013-01-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 02/01/2013 10:23, Guillaume Meurice wrote: Dear all, I recently got problem using impute package, which raise the following error message : Error in ximp[junk$imiss == 2] - NA : invalid type (bytecode) for 'dimnames' (must be a vector) And from time-to-time, it also cause some

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R and R-Studio in new MacBook Pro retina with flash storage

2012-12-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 15/12/2012 02:36, Ray DiGiacomo, Jr. wrote: Hi Victor, I have a MacBook Pro with Retina display and use R everyday. I have not seen any issues related to the flash storage. I have not used RStudio very frequently so I cannot say if that software works well on a Retina model - but I am

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