[R] installation help for mac os x

Wed Oct 6 16:10:41 CEST 2004

Hi,

Thanks to everyone that replied! Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but I 
was out of town. I did install the X11 SDK package and that took care 
of the subsequent problems with Tk. However, as suggested by Prof. 
RIpley, I could have just installed the binary from the link below 
(just looked again at the website now and there will be a newer version 
available on 10-/15/04). I do need to learn more about unix... Anyway, 
it's working great and I'm excited to get started. I'll download all 
the manuals and start using R.

I do have one more question regarding the contributed packages for base 
distribution. I will mostly be using this software for basic summary 
stats, plots (histograms, boxplots, scatterplots), regression, 
non-parametric tests, and time series. Will I need to install any of 
these additional packages?

Thanks again to everyone for their assistance.

Nancy

On Oct 5, 2004, at 12:30 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> There is a binary installation available at
>
> 	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
>
> so do you actually need to be building from the sources?  If you do, 
> your
> immediate problem is installing Tk on MacOS X, and that's not something
> relevant to R-help.  However, Tk on Unix needs X11, whose installation 
> you
> omitted.
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Nancy Hornewer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm  trying to install R for Mac OS X. I printed out the Mac OS X FAQ
>> (version 1.9-1 2004-03-22) and have been following those instructions
>> step-by-step. I'm a _complete_ novice when it comes to non-mac type
>> software installations and am not very unix literate, but I'm hoping I
>> can get this to work. I'm running a dual 1.8 GHz mac with the latest
>> version of panther.
>>
>> Here's my progress to date:
>> (1) Installed the  C/C++ compiler from the Apple Developer Connection
>> (v. 1.5) - no problems
>> (2) Installed the Fortran compiler g77 for gcc 3.3 (v. 3.4) - no
>> problems
>> (3) Installed the libreadline  library (v. 4.3) [note faq said
>> optional, but I saw that it was recommended in one of the r-help
>> archives] - no problems
>> (4) Didn't install X11 SDK package because it was optional and I don't
>> think I need that (just want to run this on my machine)
>> (5) Installed tcl8.4.7 - no problems
>> (6) Tried installing tk8.4.7 but received many many error messages 
>> when
>> I typed "make". Here is the last portion of those messages:
>>
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c: In function `Tk_Get3DBorderFromObj':
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1262: error: `borderPtr' undeclared (first use
>> in this function)
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1264: error: invalid operands to binary *
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1264: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1277: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1280: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1280: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1281: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1301: error: request for member `borderTable'
>> in something not a structure or union
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1301: error: request for member `borderTable'
>> in something not a structure or union
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1305: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1307: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1307: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1308: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c: In function `TkDebugBorder':
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1388: error: `borderPtr' undeclared (first use
>> in this function)
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1391: error: invalid operands to binary *
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1391: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1394: error: request for member `borderTable'
>> in something not a structure or union
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1394: error: request for member `borderTable'
>> in something not a structure or union
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1396: error: parse error before ')' token
>> /usr/include/ctype.h: At top level:
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:1134: error: storage size of `shiftTable' 
>> isn't
>> known
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:31: warning: `BorderInit' declared `static' 
>> but
>> never defined
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:36: warning: `Intersect' declared `static' but
>> never defined
>> /tk8.4.7/generic/tk3d.c:39: warning: `ShiftLine' declared `static' but
>> never defined
>> {standard input}:1940:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
>> {standard input}:1943:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
>> {standard input}:1979:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
>> {standard input}:1982:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
>> {standard input}:1985:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
>> {standard input}:1988:Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol.
>> make: *** [tk3d.o] Error 1
>> cm-24-121-11-63:/tk8.4.7/unix nancy$
>>
>> I'm not sure why this didn't work and tried the "make" command twice 
>> (I
>> hope I didn't mess anything up by running that command twice). I can
>> email the entire list of errors if necessary, but it is really long.
>>
>> After the above failed, I did install the next item on the faq list:
>> TeX and that seemed to work fine.
>>
>> I haven't yet tried installing the R sources yet because I was afraid
>> that it might have to be installed after tk.
>>
>> Any assistance that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Nancy
>>
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>
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