[R] Re: Failed R installation under Mac OSX 10.3 (PR#5697)

[Brian Beckage]

Thanks, Simon!  This solved the problem.

Brian


>On Dec 11, 2003, at 10:39 AM, Brian.Beckage at uvm.edu wrote:
>
>>I've installed R 1.8.1 on OSX 10.3 (Panther) using the RAqua.pkg and
>>all indications were that the installation was successful.  However,
>>after double clicking the R icon in the Applications folder, nothing
>>appears to happen.  The following message appears on the console:
>>
>>Mac OS X Version 10.3 (Build 7B85)
>>2003-12-11 08:45:31 -0500
>>prefs written
>>dyld: /Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/MacOS/RAqua can't
>>open library: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.4.3.dylib  (No such file or
>>directory, errno = 2)
>>
>
>Obviously readline is not installed on your 
>system and RAqua doesn't seem to install it 
>either. The usual solution is to compile 
>readline yourself. For your convenience you'll 
>find a compiled version attached. To install, 
>copy it to your desktop and run in terminal:
>
>cd /
>sudo tar fvxz ~/Desktop/readline.4.3.tar.gz
>
>Cheers,
>Simon
>
>
>
>Content-Type: application/x-gzip;
>	x-unix-mode=0644;
>	name="readline.4.3.tar.gz"
>Content-Disposition: attachment;
>	filename=readline.4.3.tar.gz
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:readline.4.3.tar.gz (????/----) (00119BD9)
>
>---
>Simon Urbanek
>Department of computer oriented statistics and data analysis
>Universitätsstr. 14
>86135 Augsburg
>Germany
>
>Tel: +49-821-598-2236
>Fax: +49-821-598-2280
>
>Simon.Urbanek at Math.Uni-Augsburg.de
>http://simon.urbanek.info


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