[R-SIG-Mac]Re: Contents of R-SIG-Mac digest...

[Rick Osborne]

Markus,

Boy, did I go through a lot of frustration in trying to get this to work!
I never was able to get the Carbon version of R to work in ways that I
wanted. So I posted to the R list. In so doing, I received some great
advice from Andrew Beckerman and Stefano. Below is what Andrew said to get
the Unix version running.

Viel Glueck!

Rick
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As for packages... this is got to be the one reason to move to the Unix
version.  With the unix version you can a)install R with all "known"
packages (~250), compiled by Jan de Leeuw at UCLA or b) you can get the
base system and use R's commands to install packages... its really
quite easy once you get there and have R up and running...

download the .tar pacakge to your home directory.  Start X11 or just
the terminal.  type sudo R COMMAND INSTALL package name... type in your
password... the rest is done!! that easy.

(Using the terminal is fine to run R, but no graphics can be seen...
getting X11 up and running is a great bit of fun and the access to
other software is fantastic - GIMP is the open source version of
photoshop and there are open source Matlabs and the like as well...
anyhow... off the stump now.)

Go here first...it is a good description of installing X11and Fink and
stuff... the most gentle I have found. Once this is done... getting R
installed is "easy".
http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/

Here is a link to X11 info from apple
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

Fink
http://fink.sourceforge.net

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>    1. Problems installing packages for R 1.6.2 for MacOS X
>       (Markus Ullius)
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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:11:20 +0100
> From: Markus Ullius <ullius at ivt.baug.ethz.ch>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac]Problems installing packages for R 1.6.2 for MacOS
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> Hi
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> I want to install R on MacOS X 10.2.4. For this I downloaded the 
> Carbon-version 1.6.2. It runs without problem (just starting the 
> R-application).
> For a script I have to install the chron package. I downloaded it and 
> copied it into the library folder. Executing library() the 
> chron-package is also listed.
> Typing library(chron) I get the error:  Error in 
> testRversion(descFile): This package has not been installed properly. 
> See the note in ?library.
> 
> I tried install.packages() and got "Couldn't find function 
> 'install.packages'"
> 
> Then I downloaded the "Darwin-version" 1.5.1 and installed the 
> packages. But when I start R in the terminal, I get messages about 
> missing libraries. I read you should install Fink in this case which I 
> did but it still doesn't run - I get library-version errors.
> 
> I also couldn't manage to compile R (Developer tools are installed)
> 
> Can anybody help me? How can I install a package correctly in the 
> carbon version?
> or how do I have do install/compile R for Unix?
> 
> Thanks
> Markus
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