[R-SIG-Mac]RAqua

Byron Ellis bellis@hsph.harvard.edu
Sat, 7 Sep 2002 20:01:18 -0400


Perhaps not, I got the same result using 10.1.5 (I *want* to upgrade but 
haven't yet ;-)) and the codebase from earlier today (around 1pm EST)

On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 06:59 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> 1. In Jaguar /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash, no longer to /bin/zsh. This
> gives problems with some scripts.
>
> 2. The recommended startup procedure does not work. Adding
> --gui-aqua starts R in the terminal, but does not arrive at
> a prompt. This may be related to (1).
>
> On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 05:33 AM, Stefano Iacus wrote:
>
>> I have now finished to write a (prototype) Aqua module for Darwin R.
>>
>> All that you need is now in today's CVS repository of R-devel. You  
>> should also wait tomorrow and download the daily R-devel snapshots > 
>> from
>>
>> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
>>
>> because R-devel_2002-09-06.tar.gz does not contain some scripts.
>>
>> You'll find instructions on how to build, install and launch this  
>> still experimental version of RAqua that allows the interaction with  
>> the new Quartz  device "quartz()" and the workspace browser  
>> "browseEnv(html=FALSE)".
>>
>> The instructions can be found inside
>>
>> src/modules/aqua/AquaReadMe.txt
>>
>> but essentially there are three steps
>>
>> 1) configure and build
>>
>> ./configure --with-aqua --without-x
>> make
>>
>> (I'm not sure it --without-x is necessary)
>>
>> 2) to install "RAqua" in the Applications folder just execute one time
>>
>> ./AquaInstall
>>
>> from inside src/modules/aqua directory
>>
>> 3) to launch "RAqua" type, from anywhere
>>
>> sh /Applications/RAqua.app/Contents/MacOS/R --gui-aqua
>>
>> Even if you see the RAqua application in the Applications folder, is  
>> useless to double click on it.
>>
>> Building is based on fink stuff, so if you are able to build previous  
>> versions of Darwin R you should be able to build this one as well.
>>
>>
>> I do not have Jaguar yet (probably next week, but it will be too  
>> late), so if any of you can try to build and run this under Jaguar  
>> I'll be pleased.
>>
>>
>> General remarks: I released the code in order to stimulate  
>> contributions from other Darwin R developers. In particular, at  
>> moment, the R Console is necessary to have a working event manager  
>> (i.e. responses from the graphic device and other windows).
>>
>> In the future, as R process event suite is going to change, I can  
>> hopefully avoid the use of such R Console and use a standard shell 
>> but  I'm also thinking of some other trick for the meanwhile.
>>
>> RAqua it still marked as "experimental" so don't expect too much.
>>
>> Stefano
>>
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Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu)
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