[R] problems with R and tckl/tk on Mac OS X

Rob J Goedman goedman at mac.com
Fri Sep 29 17:57:28 CEST 2006


Hi John, Alex and Ingo,

Thanks for catching this question. I'd missed Ingo's original email.

Rcmdr does need X.11 and Tcl/Tk, although it uses the versions that  
come with Mac OS 10.4. Hence, as Alex indicates, there is no need to  
separately install these.

Ingo, if you can't get it to work using John's link, let me know  
where you get stuck.  R-Sig-Mac is an alias dedicated to Mac OS  
specific questions.

Regards,
Rob


On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:04 AM, John Fox wrote:

> Dear Alex,
>
> It's possible, though not clear from the original posting, that  
> Ingo is
> trying to install the Rcmdr package. If that's the case, then he  
> might find
> the installation instructions for Mac users at
> <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation- 
> notes.html>
> helpful.
>
> Regards,
>  John
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> --------------------------------
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Alex Brown
>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:48 AM
>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] problems with R and tckl/tk on Mac OS X
>>
>> I assume you are running MacOS X 10.4?
>>
>> The Mac version of R does not require X11 or Tcl/TK since it
>> uses a separate GUI interface developed exclusively for the
>> Mac using native widgets and a quartz based graphing mechanism.
>>
>> Try downloading the following binary installer which includes the gui
>> interface:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-2.3.1.dmg
>>
>> -Alex Brown
>>
>> On 29 Sep 2006, at 08:04, Ingo wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Dear R-help team,
>>> I am trying to run "R" on my Intel-based Mac.  I have installed R,
>>> X11 and Tcl/TK (I thought), but the GUI doesn't run.  My system
>>> administrator doesn't support R and therefore, I'm a little
>> helpless.
>>> What can I do?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 Sep 2006, at 08:04, Ingo wrote:
>>
>>> Dear R-help team,
>>> I am trying to run "R" on my Intel-based Mac.  I have installed R,
>>> X11 and Tcl/TK (I thought), but the GUI doesn't run.  My system
>>> administrator doesn't support R and therefore, I'm a little
>> helpless.
>>> What can I do?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
>>> guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained,
>>> reproducible code.
>>
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>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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