[R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr not running properly (OS X)

[Rob J Goedman]

Hi Michael,

Can you check if the following packages are installed:

abind, car, effects, lmtest, multcomp, mvtnorm, relimp, sandwich,  
strucchange, and zoo

Furthermore, it might help for now to remove the existing .RData.

Rob


On Jun 25, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Kubovy Michael wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Rob Goedeman kindly responded to a request for help because Rcmdr  
> was not running properly on my machine. Because I had installed  
> TclAqua in an attempt to remedy earlier failures to run Rcmdr he  
> suggested the following:
>
>> You can try to reinstall R.app from R-2.3.1.dmg and make sure
>> you select to install the link to tcltk during the 4th or 5th step  
>> of the install of R (a customize button should
>> show up in the lower left corner of the install window, select  
>> tcltk there).
>>
>> After the reinstall (libraries will remain intact), try 'library 
>> (Rcmdr)' again.
>
> I followed his advice. However, it looks like tcltk is fine, but  
> there still is a problem:
>
> ********************************************************************** 
> *****
>
> > library(Rcmdr)
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Loading required package: car
>
> Attaching package: 'car'
>
>
> 	The following object(s) are masked from file:/Users/mk/Documents/ 
> hh//splus.library/HH/.RData :
>
> 	 vif
>
> Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error in "*"
> Error: .onAttach failed in 'attachNamespace'
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'Rcmdr'
>
> ********************************************************************** 
> *****
>
> The failure isn't complete, however. There does appear an 'R  
> Commander' X window. I can pull down menus. For example, I tried  
> the menu: 'Data:Data in packages:Read dataset from an attached  
> package...'
> I chose the 'Adler' dataset from the package 'car'. Nothing  
> happened (except for the spinning ball) until I cancelled the  
> request in the 'Read Data from Package' window, after which my  
> console showed:
>
> Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error in "*"
>
> ********************************************************************** 
> *****
> FYI:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "tcltk"     "methods"   "stats"     "utils"     "datasets"   
> "graphics"
> [7] "grid"      "grDevices" "base"
>
> other attached packages:
>      car multcomp  mvtnorm    abind  lattice
> "1.1-0"  "0.4-8"  "0.7-2"  "1.1-0" "0.13-8"
>
> ********************************************************************** 
> *****
>
> Advice?
>
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