[R-SIG-Mac] new installation of R 2.8.1 hangs on Mac OS X 10.5.6

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:26 , Massimo Pinto wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> Thank you. It's a several minutes hang, on a relatively fast  
> 'university' LAN. But more interestingly, perhaps, Mac OS 'believes'  
> that R is not responding while it goes ahead and installs packages.  
> Does that suffice to claim that installation of extra packages is  
> dysfunctional on my platform?

No, that is (sort of) normal. The installation is synchronous, i.e. R  
won't come back until the installation has finished, so the R GUI  
won't be able to respond to the OS until R handles the control back.  
The OS interprets this as not responding, since the GUI cannot process  
event while R is installing away happily.


> I have successfully managed to install packages by hand, few days  
> ago, after I had dowloaded them manually, and this had worked - but  
> for "genefilter". Since I was getting stuck with the installation of  
> genefilter, I erased R (following instructions) and re-installed it  
> from the .dmg package. That, however, does not seem to have helped  
> much.
>

Well, why don't you tell us what is your problem with genefilter?  
(Actually you may even take this to the BioC list since this appears  
to be really a BioC question ...).

Cheers,
Simon



> Cheers again.
> Massimo
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org 
> > wrote:
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Massimo Pinto wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> I am having troubles getting R to work on a Mac OS X 10.5.6,  
> Leopard. I have
> installed R 2.8.1 (R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit) from a .dmg  
> file
> using the Mac OS installer, and, apparently, everything went smoothly.
> >From R, I would like to install a few basic packages that I will  
> need to run
> in conjunction with "Agi4x44PreProcess" which I need to use to  
> preprocess my
> cDNA microarray data. This is what I do from the R console:
>
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>   biocLite()
>
> I do get a list of the packages that will be installed, but then the  
> system
> hangs and I have to resort to a "Force Quit".
> I get the same behaviour when I try the package installer, right  
> from the R
> GUI. Again, I got a hang.
>
>
> How long is the "hang"? Note that the installation can take a while  
> depending on your connection since some of the packages are big. If  
> R hangs for a while even installing one package, then there may be  
> some problem with your internet connection. In that case you may  
> want to download the files manually (e.g. thorough a proxy) and  
> install them from local files.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestion toward the resolution of  
> this
> problem.
> Yours,
> Massimo
>
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> Massimo Pinto
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> Enrico Fermi Centre and Italian Public Health Research Institute  
> (ISS), Rome
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