[R-SIG-Mac]Re: R-SIG-Mac Digest, Vol 1, Issue 275

[Markus Ullius]

Hi

Andrew Beckerman could help me and it works now. Thanks.

Best Regards
Markus

On Freitag, März 7, 2003, at 12:02  Uhr, 
r-sig-mac-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:20:12 -0700 (MST)
> From: Rick Osborne <rick at cs.colorado.edu>
> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac]Re: Contents of R-SIG-Mac digest...
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> 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
> =====================================================
> 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
>>
>> 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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