[R-SIG-Mac] making R64 the default gui

[Airey, David C]

So I have only two R.GUIs on my system, R.app and R64.app that were installed with from CRAN (R-2.10.1.tar.gz). Are you saying I should move them both out, or all but the R64.app, before rebuilding?

Thank you for this help.


On Feb 7, 2010, at 3:40 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Feb 7, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
> 
>> I did rebuild the launch services using:
>> 
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/ 
>> Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister - 
>> kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
>> 
>> but unlike you I get the same response to trying to change things  
>> with the Get Info dialog--it always reverts to R.app rather than  
>> R64.app.
> 
> Did you remove the other R.GUIs from the Applications folder before  
> you did that? I moved them out before rebuilding and then moved them  
> back in afterward.
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
> 
>> 
>> I note that the com.apple.launchservices.plist file reads:
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd 
>> ">
>> <plist version="1.0">
>> <dict>
>> 	<key>LSHandlers</key>
>> 	<array>
>> 		<dict>
>> 			<key>LSHandlerContentType</key>
>> 			<string>com.apple.rez-source</string>
>> 			<key>LSHandlerRoleAll</key>
>> 			<string>org.r-project.r</string>
>> 		</dict>
>> 	</array>
>> </dict>
>> </plist>
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:15 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear list,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a bit more RAM now and want to make R64 the default GUI.
>>>> 
>>>> What is the best way to do this?
>>> 
>>> I usually dragged my files to the Dock icon.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The simplest way outside the terminal is to get info on a file and
>>>> make an application the default for a particular extension, like .r
>>>> or .rdata, etc. But for some reason this doesn't work with the R.app
>>>> and R64.app distributed. R64 doesn't stick, and reverts to R in the
>>>> Get Info window.
>>>> 
>>>> Can someone (1) explain this behavior, and (2) provide alternative
>>>> instructions?
>>> 
>>> I can reproduce the problem in the sense that I changed the file
>>> association for .r files to R64.app and it keeps going back to R.app.
>>> I think it will require editing the file associations database. I
>>> wasn't sure how to do that but here's a link to some ideas about  
>>> using
>>> lsregister. It may be a bit out of date since it appears to have been
>>> applied to OSX 10.3.
>>> 
>>> I got what appear to be favorable results by:
>>> 
>>> a) moving all the old and undesired R_x.app GUI's out of the
>>> Applications folder and ...
>>> b) running this script from the Apple Script editor:
>>> 
>>> (*
>>> rebuildLaunchServicesDB.scpt
>>> Locates the lsregister command regardless of OS version, then tells  
>>> it
>>> to rebuild the Launch Services Database for all applications in the
>>> canonical Applications folder
>>> Paul Henegan
>>> bleulyon at mac.com
>>> 20.Aug.2008
>>> *)
>>> 
>>> set theCommand to (do shell script "locate lsregister")
>>> set theArguments to " -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system - 
>>> domain
>>> user"
>>> set thePath to " /Applications"--edit this as needed
>>> set theScript to theCommand & theArguments & thePath
>>> do shell script theScript
>>> 
>>> -------end script-----------
>>> 
>>> The R64 assignment seems to be "sticking."
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> 
>>>> -Dave
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>>> 
>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>> Heritage Laboratories
>>> West Hartford, CT
>>> 
>> 
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>