Hi Simon,Thank you. It's a several minutes hang, on a relatively fast 'university' LAN. But more interestingly, perhaps, Mac OS 'believes' that R is not responding while it goes ahead and installs packages. Does that suffice to claim that installation of extra packages is dysfunctional on my platform? I have successfully managed to install packages by hand, few days ago, after I had dowloaded them manually, and this had worked - but for "genefilter". Since I was getting stuck with the installation of genefilter, I erased R (following instructions) and re-installed it from the .dmg package. That, however, does not seem to have helped much. Cheers again. Massimo
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>wrote: > > On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Massimo Pinto wrote: > > Greetings, >> I am having troubles getting R to work on a Mac OS X 10.5.6, Leopard. I >> have >> installed R 2.8.1 (R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit) from a .dmg file >> using the Mac OS installer, and, apparently, everything went smoothly. >> >>> From R, I would like to install a few basic packages that I will need to >>> run >>> >> in conjunction with "Agi4x44PreProcess" which I need to use to preprocess >> my >> cDNA microarray data. This is what I do from the R console: >> >> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") >> biocLite() >> >> I do get a list of the packages that will be installed, but then the >> system >> hangs and I have to resort to a "Force Quit". >> I get the same behaviour when I try the package installer, right from the >> R >> GUI. Again, I got a hang. >> >> > How long is the "hang"? Note that the installation can take a while > depending on your connection since some of the packages are big. If R hangs > for a while even installing one package, then there may be some problem with > your internet connection. In that case you may want to download the files > manually (e.g. thorough a proxy) and install them from local files. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestion toward the resolution of this >> problem. >> Yours, >> Massimo >> >> -- >> Massimo Pinto >> Post Doctoral Research Fellow >> Enrico Fermi Centre and Italian Public Health Research Institute (ISS), >> Rome >> http://claimid.com/massimopinto >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >> > -- Massimo Pinto Post Doctoral Research Fellow Enrico Fermi Centre and Italian Public Health Research Institute (ISS), Rome http://claimid.com/massimopinto [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac