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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Note from my prior message that I did explicitly use --rhome=
just in case to be sure the launcher could find my installation.
Also from the output of rversions.bat we see that R is listed in
the registry.   Is there anything else it needs?

C:\tmp2>R --version
R version 2.9.0 Patched (2009-06-04 r48708)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
...snip...
C:\tmp2> rem rversions.bat shows R versions found in registry
C:\tmp2> rem http://batchfiles.googlecode.com
C:\tmp2>rversions.bat
R-2.10.x
R-2.5.1
R-2.6.0
R-2.6.0alpha
R-2.6.2
R-2.7.x
R-2.8.0pat
R-2.8.x
R-2.9.0dev
R-2.9.x

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Ian Fellows<ifellows at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> I'm using XP, but I tested an earlier version on Vista. It looks like the
> launcher is having some trouble finding your installation. I don't have much
> to do with the launcher, so I've forwarded your message to an appropriate
> list. I'll see if I can test on a vista machine some time today.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:42 AM
> To: Fellows, Ian
> Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI
>
> 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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>>
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