[R] R.app installer probs on Snow Leopard

[Walter Ludwick]

Thanks, Peter and David, for the pointers -and my apologies to the list for posting to the wrong place; i will in future use the SIG-Mac list for such things.

To the problem: Yes, i did indeed make that fundamental error of taking the R.app GUI package to be all i needed to run the program.  I gathered this, and downloaded all versions of that package from http://r.research.att.com/  (which is obviously no "official" download page, tho i took it as such, linked as it was from www.r-project.org at a high level).

So now: i did a plain install of the R-2.13.1 package using link that Peter provided below, and that seems to be working just fine. Thanks again, Peter!   /w


On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:39 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:

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> On Aug 3, 2011, at 18:35 , Walter Ludwick wrote:
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>> Have tried to install R.app several times (6, in fact: versions 2.12, 13 & 14, both 32 and 64 bit versions), using packages freshly downloaded from the official project page, and failed every time, given exception reports such as the following (appended below, the 2 reports arising out of my 1st & 6th attempts). 
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>> Machine & software version specifics are all contained therein. 
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>> What am i missing, i wonder? Any clues would be most appreciated -thanx!   /w
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> What did you do to install? For a plain install, just get
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> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-2.13.1.pkg
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> open it and follow the instructions.
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> If you tried to install the 
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> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/Mac-GUI-1.41.tar.gz
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> then I suspect that you missed the point, that R.app is something you install _on_ _top_ _of_ an installation of R itself.
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