[R] installation help for mac os x

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Wed Oct 6 16:20:38 CEST 2004 

The authors have done if all for us--you don't need to download all the 
manuals.  They are included.  Just type help.start() in the window.  A 
web browser will magically open with all the R-help.

Sean

On Oct 6, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Nancy Hornewer wrote:

> 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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>>
>> -- 
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>>
>>
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