Ido - R for OSX generally runs via an application, called R.app, which your colleague could find in their applications directory. It can run scripts and has a rather nice script editor associated with it.
You can run R as you would in linux using X11.app, found in Applications->Utilities on OSX. R is not designed to run from Terminal.app (actually, terminal does not do graphics well for R). X11 provides the behaviour that you would be used to in Linux etc. BTW - there is a R-Mac-help group as well for macintosh specific issues - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andrew Beckerman Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK ph +44 (0)114 222 0026; fx +44 (0)114 222 0002 http://www.beckslab.staff.shef.ac.uk/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 9 Jan 2008, at 13:22, Ido M. Tamir wrote: > Hi, > > I directed somebody to install R (2.6.1) on his OSX computer, > following instructions from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx. > She can run R from the console. > But plot(1:10) doesn't produce any output or open a window (as I am > used to from linux). > > More importantly: > Rscript is not in the path (minor problem ln -s is hopefully > doable). I tried > to put a hardcoded path to Rscript into the shebang line but this > fails. And > when I try to invoke it directly: > >> -bash: ./Rscript: cannot execute binary file > > On linux this works. > > I would like to send her some Rscripts, but how can we make them > run on her system? > > > > thank you very much, > ido > > > > imaclab3:/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin ru$ ls -l > > total 1008 > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1654 Nov 26 17:36 BATCH > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2188 Nov 26 17:36 COMPILE > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 34391 Nov 26 17:36 INSTALL > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1593 Nov 26 17:36 LINK > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 7210 Nov 26 17:37 R > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 7210 Nov 26 17:37 R.orig > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 655 Nov 26 17:37 R.rej > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2244 Nov 26 17:36 REMOVE > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 928 Nov 26 17:36 Rcmd > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 9523 Nov 26 17:36 Rd2dvi > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 842 Nov 26 17:36 Rd2txt > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3237 Nov 26 17:36 Rdconv > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 1320 Nov 26 17:36 Rdiff > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 2854 Nov 26 17:36 Rprof > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 18084 Nov 26 17:36 Rscript > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 4656 Nov 26 17:36 SHLIB > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 16129 Nov 26 17:36 Sd2Rd > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 730 Nov 26 17:36 Stangle > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 726 Nov 26 17:36 Sweave > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 21715 Nov 26 17:36 build > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 78570 Nov 26 17:36 check > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 6927 Nov 26 17:36 config > drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 Nov 26 17:36 exec > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3613 Nov 26 17:36 f77_f2c > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 10720 Nov 26 17:36 javareconf > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 215101 Nov 26 17:36 libtool > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 3495 Nov 26 17:36 mkinstalldirs > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root admin 413 Nov 26 17:36 pager > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.