[R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI

[Gabor Grothendieck]

What version of Windows and JGR did you try?  I haven't been able
to get JGR to work on Windows Vista with R 2.9 and JGR 1.6.7 or
JGR 1.6.6 (the prior version of JGR).

When I run jgr.exe it seems to install something the first time and
on subsequent calls to jgr.exe without arguments it tries to install
it again but fails.

Since calling it without args fails, I tried this as well as numerous
variations of arguments as well as using or not using
 R_LIBS, R_LIBS_USER, etc. e.g.

setlocal
set R_LIBS_USER=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\R\win-library\2.9
set R_HOME=C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-29~1.X
jgr.exe --libpath=%R_LIBS_USER% --rhome=%R_HOME%
endlocal

but in all cases JGR opens and then immediately closes.

With the prior version of JGR, 1.6.6, the above hung and I had to kill it with
task manager.   Also with the prior version of task manager if I removed
the R_LIBS_USER line then it would open but give a huge number of
errors and the user library would not be on .libPaths().



On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ian Fellows<ifellows at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> I haven't tested with Linux, only windows and os x. Swing is supposed to be
> cross platform, but some times these things don't work quite as planned.
>
> I just installed fresh on a windows machine from CRAN which worked okay but
> I did notice one potential problem. The JGR launcher will download the
> newest dev version of JGR (1.7) if no version is currently present. So,
> there is an additional step of opening the native R console and entering
> install.packages("JGR").
>
> This is not the problem on your system, as you are running 1.6-7. I'll have
> to find a linux machine and do some testing to figure out what is going on.
> As I said, this is very much in the pre-alpha stage, so this is useful
> information for me. Does anyone else have this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> ian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Hodder [mailto:tom at limepepper.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: Fellows, Ian
> Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI
>
> Ian Fellows wrote:
>> Thanks for looking Tom.
>>
>> Are you entering "library(Deducer)" from within the JGR console?
>>
>> What version of JGR are you using? The version number is displayed on the
>> splash screen at start up, and should be 1.6-7.
>>
>> What operating system are you using?
>>
>> Is your R up to date? i.e. Version 2.9.0
>>
>> Are there any warnings/errors?
>>
>>
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep R-core
> R-core-2.9.0-2.fc10.x86_64
> [root at localhost ~]# java -version
> java version "1.6.0_0"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.5) (fedora-18.b16.fc10-x86_64)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b15, mixed mode)
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
>
> JGR is 1.6-7
>
> I am running the following in the JGR console;
>
> "> library(Deducer)
> Loading required package: ggplot2
> Loading required package: proto
> Loading required package: grid
> Loading required package: reshape
> Loading required package: plyr
>
> Attaching package: 'ggplot2'
>
>
>    The following object(s) are masked from package:grid :
>
>     nullGrob "
>
> There are no errors to either the JGR or R console
>
> Tom
>
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