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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Just a correction. The version of JGR I was using is 1.7.0.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Gabor
Grothendieck<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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