Thanks, Peter and David, for the pointers -and my apologies to the list for posting to the wrong place; i will in future use the SIG-Mac list for such things.
To the problem: Yes, i did indeed make that fundamental error of taking the R.app GUI package to be all i needed to run the program. I gathered this, and downloaded all versions of that package from http://r.research.att.com/ (which is obviously no "official" download page, tho i took it as such, linked as it was from www.r-project.org at a high level). So now: i did a plain install of the R-2.13.1 package using link that Peter provided below, and that seems to be working just fine. Thanks again, Peter! /w On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:39 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2011, at 18:35 , Walter Ludwick wrote: > >> Have tried to install R.app several times (6, in fact: versions 2.12, 13 & >> 14, both 32 and 64 bit versions), using packages freshly downloaded from the >> official project page, and failed every time, given exception reports such >> as the following (appended below, the 2 reports arising out of my 1st & 6th >> attempts). >> >> Machine & software version specifics are all contained therein. >> >> What am i missing, i wonder? Any clues would be most appreciated -thanx! /w > > What did you do to install? For a plain install, just get > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-2.13.1.pkg > > open it and follow the instructions. > > > If you tried to install the > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/Mac-GUI-1.41.tar.gz > > then I suspect that you missed the point, that R.app is something you install > _on_ _top_ _of_ an installation of R itself. > ... ______________________________________________ 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.
