[R] R 2.13 installation

[peter dalgaard]

On Jun 30, 2011, at 18:08 , Paul J. Ossenbruggen wrote:

> I installed R  2.13 on my Power PC (32 bit). The installation responds with the message; "Installed Successfully." R opens normally.
> 
> When I attempt a simple example, like adding two numbers, it fails to respond. I must use Force Quit to stop it.
> 
> I have no problems with R on my Intel Mac.
> 
> I appreciate any suggestions for solving my problem.

Assuming (!) that you're running the CRAN version on Mac OSX... 

Do you also have trouble if you start R in a terminal? That would at least give you a workaround.

Is the problem still present in recent test builds out of http://R.research.att.com/ ??

I suspect there aren't all that many PPC Macs around running R, so stuff may go largely untested, especially in the interactive use. Simon (Urbanek) might have a handle on this already, but if you're the only one with the problem, it could be useful to get you to attach to the running R with GDB (some assembly required) and figure out were it is getting stuck, e.g.:

Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:trunk pd$ ps auxww | grep R
...
pd        2200   0.6  1.1  2797972  45248   ??  S     9:47PM   0:03.21 /Applications/R64.app/Contents/MacOS/R -psn_0_413797
...

Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:trunk pd$ gdb -p 2200
GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1515) (Sat Jan 15 08:33:48 UTC 2011)
....(Tons of warnings here)....
. done
0x00007fff8473cd7a in mach_msg_trap ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007fff8473cd7a in mach_msg_trap ()
#1  0x00007fff8473d3ed in mach_msg ()
#2  0x00007fff80456932 in __CFRunLoopRun ()
...
#14 0x0000000100013837 in -[REngine runREPL] ()
#15 0x0000000100002047 in main ()




> 
> Thanks Paul
> 
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