[R] [R-SIG-Mac] problem with the installation of r commander on a mac
John Fox
jfox at mcmaster.ca
Wed Jun 12 22:52:01 CEST 2013
Dear Susanne,
You started this thread on r-help (though R-SIG-Mac would have been more
appropriate), and so I'm copying my response to the r-help list. People will
find it confusing if the messages are simply kept private.
It's not obvious to me exactly what your problem is now. In particular, is
the Rcmdr package working when you start XQuartz before R?
I see that you've installed and loaded the FactoMineR package. Presumably
the Rcmdr package was already installed. Then you executed an R script
provided by the authors of the FactoMineR package, which reinstalls and then
modifies the Rcmdr package. I think that this is ill-advised (as opposed to
providing an Rcmdr plug-in package for FactoMineR, as used to be the case),
and if you're having problems with their script, you should really contact
the authors.
If I read the messages correctly, the script produces warnings, not errors,
oddly relating to the language you're using (odd because the authors of the
FactoMineR package are French) and it's possible that everything will work
correctly despite the warnings.
I hope this helps,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susanne.Ettinger [mailto:susanne.ettinger at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:44 AM
> To: John Fox
> Subject: Re: [R] [R-SIG-Mac] problem with the installation of r
> commander on a mac
>
> Dear John,
>
> thank you very much for your quick reply - I realize I sent this email
> to the list without being a member, but I am a very beginner and
> started this morning the installation process of R.
>
> I have been printing out any possibly available information on how to
> get started with R and I am following the exercices exposed in the book
> written by Cornillon et al. (2012) to use FactoMineR to do some PCA
> analysis on vulnerability data.
>
> I downloaded the 3.0.1 version of R and have the 1.9-6 package of
> Rcmdr. I also checked into the library(tcltk) but do not get an error
> message, this seems to work fine.
>
> Since I open XQuartz before starting the Rcmdr library, I am getting a
> different error message than the ones of this morning. This is what it
> looks like :
>
>
> > install.packages()
> --- SVP sélectionner un miroir CRAN pour cette session ---
> essai de l'URL 'http://cran.univ-
> lyon1.fr/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/FactoMineR_1.25.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3397827 bytes (3.2 Mb)
> URL ouverte
> ==================================================
> downloaded 3.2 Mb
>
>
>
>
> Les packages binaires téléchargés sont dans
> /var/folders/06/z7b6z3y102xgxls2xh251p5w0000gp/T//Rtmp13nIpm/downl
> oaded_packages
> > library(FactoMineR)
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : car
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : MASS
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : nnet
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : ellipse
>
>
> Attachement du package : ‘ellipse’
>
>
> L'objet suivant est masqué from ‘package:car’:
>
>
> ellipse
>
>
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : lattice
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : cluster
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : scatterplot3d
> Le chargement a nécessité le package : leaps
> > source("http://factominer.free.fr/install-facto-fr.r")
> essai de l'URL 'http://cran.univ-
> lyon1.fr/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/Rcmdr_1.9-6.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3759850 bytes (3.6 Mb)
> URL ouverte
> ==================================================
> downloaded 3.6 Mb
>
>
>
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> /var/folders/06/z7b6z3y102xgxls2xh251p5w0000gp/T//Rtmp13nIpm/downl
> oaded_packages
> essai de l'URL 'http://cran.univ-
> lyon1.fr/bin/macosx/contrib/3.0/FactoMineR_1.25.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3397827 bytes (3.2 Mb)
> URL ouverte
> ==================================================
> downloaded 3.2 Mb
>
>
>
>
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> /var/folders/06/z7b6z3y102xgxls2xh251p5w0000gp/T//Rtmp13nIpm/downl
> oaded_packages
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 1 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 5 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 31 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 35 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 81 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 84 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 92 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 97 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 105 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 114 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
> Avis dans grepl("\n", lines, fixed = TRUE) :
> la chaîne de caractères entrée 170 est incorrecte dans cet
> environnement linguistique
>
>
>
>
>
> This is where the file continues line by line with the same error
> message.
> So I think if I manage to get this fixed, I should be good to go
> If you have ever seen such type of an error and could give me a hint of
> how to resolve the problem, this would be more than appreciated.
>
> I will let you know whether I can get the Rcmd library to run and how
> if that ever happens ;-)
>
> Thank you again !
>
> Kind regards,
> Susanne
>
> __________________________
>
> Susanne ETTINGER
> Postdoctoral researcher
> -
> Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans
> UBP - UMR6524 CNRS - M163 IRD
> 5, rue Kessler
> 63038 Clermont-Ferrand
> -
> Tel : ++33 (0)6.18.27.54.93
> Fax : ++33 (0)4.73.34.67.44
> -
> susanne.ettinger at gmail.com
> __________________________
>
> "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
> off your goal."
> Henry Ford
>
>
> Le 12 juin 2013 à 17:03, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> a écrit :
>
>
> Dear Susanne,
>
> Installation instructions for the Rcmdr are at
> <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-
> notes.html>,
> but you've apparently done what you normally need to do to get it
> to work.
> Though you don't say so, I assume that you have the latest
> versions of R
> (3.0.1) and the Rcmdr (1.9-6), and that you've not only downloaded
> XQuartz,
> but installed it (a necessary step on Mac OS X 10.8).
>
> Beyond that, you haven't provided much detail about the error, but
> I suspect
> that for some reason XQuartz isn't finding your display. One way
> to check
> whether the error is particular to the Rcmdr is to try to load the
> tcltk
> package in R directly via library(tcltk). You might also try
> starting the
> XQuartz app *before* you start R.
>
> It's a bit disconcerting that others have occasionally reported a
> similar
> problem, solved the problem, but, as far as I know, failed to post
> the
> solution to this list, which seems to me a common courtesy. If I
> knew the
> solution, I could add it to the Rcmdr installation notes.
>
> I'm not a frequent user of Mac OS X, and I've never experienced
> problems
> installing the Rcmdr on it. I imagine that other list members will
> be able
> to offer more concrete help.
>
> Best,
> John
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> John Fox
> Senator McMaster Professor of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Susanne.Ettinger
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:06 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] [R-SIG-Mac] problem with the installation
of
> r
> commander on a mac
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to install R and the Rcmdr package on a MacOSX
> 10.8.4.
>
> It appears that I keep getting the error message "Erreur :
le
> chargement du package ou de l'espace de noms a échoué pour
> 'Rcmdr'" no
> matter what my approach is. Even downloading XQuartz-2.7.4
> did not
> help.
>
> I found the same problem outlined on the following website
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-
> October/325305.html
>
> and was wondering whether a solution to the problem has been
> stated
> since then and if you could help me with instructions how to
> proceed ?
>
> Thank you very much for your help !
>
> Kind regards,
> Susanne
>
> __________________________
>
> Susanne ETTINGER
> Postdoctoral researcher
> -
> Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans
> UBP - UMR6524 CNRS - M163 IRD
> 5, rue Kessler
> 63038 Clermont-Ferrand
> -
> Tel : ++33 (0)6.18.27.54.93
> Fax : ++33 (0)4.73.34.67.44
> -
> susanne.ettinger at gmail.com
> __________________________
>
> "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
> Robertson Davies
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