On 26/04/2010, at 5:47 PM, Doug Y'barbo wrote: > Greetings: > > In sum, there's a stray preference-like file or two (probably just one) > somewhere in my file structure that i just can't find. > > Here's the story: > > I recently attempted to update my R install from 2.10 to 2.11. As i have done > before, i installed from source. I know that all of the dependencies are > correctly installed and made available to R, because my prior install worked > fine. (In fact, i've probably installed from source about a half dozen times > since about 2.7/OS X 10.4). After i upgraded to 2.11, i was unable to > install packages (no exception thrown, it just doesn't appear to complete the > install and is unresponsive so i have to quit + restart R, also). > > Given i installed from source, there are any number of points in the process > that i could have messed up--i'll sort that out by myself. > > What i need to do now is "start over" which requires that i clear out my my > prior install; however, I am having trouble doing that. > > There is still at least one preference file or something like that i can't > find and one of these is causing the problem, so i need to find it and > terminate it with extreme prejudice before i do a fresh install. Although i > set a number of flags during the install, i have never opted out of the > default install locations during the config step. > > There has to be one or more preference files still in my file structure (and > that's also accessible to the new install of R) because after i follow all of > the steps below, then do a fresh install, when i start R for the first time, > some of my preferences have persisted (e.g., quartz settings, GUI background > color, editor selection, etc.). Again, the problem is that i just cannot > locate those files. Finally, the problem can't be that during my last install > from source, i inadvertently caused a preference file to be sent to an > off-spec location--because again, a fresh R install (whether from source or > from the OS X binaries) is finding those files >
Preferences for the R GUI seem to be in the standard MacOS place, /Library/Preferences/org.R-project.R.plist and org.R-project.R.LSSharedFileList.plist of the home directory. Ken > > Here's what i've done prior to attempting a clean install of R: > > Removed files from these locations: > > ~/.RData ~/.RHistory /Applications/R64.app /Applications/R.app > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework (i also removed all symlinks from these) > > Cleared all RAM and disk caches, in particular the directory where i know R > caches: ~/Library/Caches/R* (in fact i've cleared this entire directory) > > Checked for all 'hidden' files in the OS X directories where login/startup > files are often placed: /etc/ ~/ > > In addition, i've checked R-help, and i've also read through the relevant > portions of 'R Installation and Administration'--no luck. > > I've also searched searched my file structure using the various bash > utilities, which nearly always solves problems of this sort quite easily, but > in this case obviously searching by name or even pattern is more problematic. > > And finally, i've looked through what i believe to be the relevant files in > the source--config.site, README, and INSTALL--again, no luck. > > Grateful for any assistance. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
