[R-SIG-Mac] Install multiple versions of R on Mac

[Steven McKinney]

Hi Marius,

What I have found is that RSwitch does not work if you only have one instance of R.app in
your Applications folder.  RSwitch does not modify R.app in the Applications folder, so after
you switched back to R-2.13.? with RSwitch, the R-2.13 startup is interacting with the
R-2.14 R.app in some fashion that Simon Urbanek might be able to explain but which I
have not yet worked out.

When I needed both R-2.12.2 and R-2.13.1, I made a folder
called "temp" in Applications, then copied the R.app from R-GUI-5732-2.12-leopard_Leopard64.dmg 
to Applications/temp and renamed it R-2.12.2_64bit.app, then moved that to the
Applications folder.  Next I copied the R.app from R-GUI-5885-2.13-leopard-Leopard64.dmg
to Applications/temp, renamed it to R-2.13.1_64bit.app, then moved it to the Applications
folder.  Now after I use RSwitch, if I run the appropriate R-<version>.app the Mac R GUI
initialization and startup works.  See e.g. 

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-mac@r-project.org/msg00559.html

R-GUI-5732-2.12-leopard_Leopard64.dmg and the like available from 
http://r.research.att.com/

Your R.app in the Applications directory is the one from the last R you installed,
which appears to be the current development version.  So rename R.app to
something such as R-2.14.0_devel_64bit.app.  Then reinstall R-2.13.1 or use the strategy
I outlined above, and get the R-2.13.1 R.app renamed to R-2.13.1_64bit.app

Then after you use RSwitch, run the appropriate R-<version>.app


HTH 

Steven McKinney
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From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Marius Hofert [m_hofert at web.de]
Sent: August 15, 2011 6:35 AM
To: Help R
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Install multiple versions of R on Mac

Dear expeRts,

I would like to run R 2.13 and R 2.14 on a MacBook Pro (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3) with Mac OS X 10.6.8. I installed Rswitch to switch between the two versions. On installing the second version (2.14), I executed
sudo pkgutil --forget org.r-project.R.Leopard.fw.pkg
in the Terminal as suggested on the installation process. Then I finished the installation. 2.14 runs great (64-bit), but when I switch to R 2.13 and start R, I get the output below.

What did I do wrong?

Note: I previously had only R 2.14 running. Then I installed R 2.13 (because some things are not available for 2.14). On the installation I missed the fact that R 2.14 is not available anymore [I missed the note on using pkgutil...], so I only had R 2.13 (also running fine). After that I downloaded R 2.14 and executed the pkgutil command during the installation process. I'm not sure if this matters (I guess not, since that's probably the more typical way [first having 2.13 installed and then 2.14 :-)]).

Cheers,

Marius


 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x54d8, cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
 1: .Call("R_initMethodDispatch", as.environment(where), PACKAGE = "methods")
 2: initMethodDispatch(where)
 3: ..First.lib(libname, pkgName, env)
 4: fun(...)
 5: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
 6: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
 7: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
 8: tryCatch(fun(...), error = identity)
 9: runHook(".onLoad", package, env, package.lib, package)
10: loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source = keep.source)
11: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
12: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
13: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
14: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) {    call <- conditionCall(e)    if (!is.null(call)) {        if (identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch)))             call <- sys.call(-4L)        dcall <- deparse(call)[1L]        prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ")        LONG <- 75L        msg <- conditionMessage(e)        sm <- strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]]        w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w")        if (is.na(w))             w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L],                 type = "b")        if (w > LONG)             prefix <- paste(prefix, "\n  ", sep = "")    }    else prefix <- "Error : "    msg <- paste(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "")    .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L]))    if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"),         TRUE)) {        cat(msg, file = stderr())        .Internal(printDeferredWarnings())    }    invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error"))})
15: try({    ns <- loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc), keep.source = keep.source)    dataPath <- file.path(which.lib.loc, package, "data")    env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, dataPath = dataPath,         deps)})
16: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,     warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, quietly = quietly, keep.source = keep.source)
17: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
18: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
19: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
20: tryCatch(library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,     logical.return = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, quietly = quietly,     keep.source = keep.source), error = function(e) e)
21: require("methods", quietly = TRUE, warn.conflicts = FALSE, character.only = TRUE)
22: .OptRequireMethods()

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection:
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