[R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander

[John Fox]

Dear Andy and Simon,

There are installation notes for Mac users of the R Commander at
<http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html>.
If after following the steps in the installation notes the Rcmdr still fails
to work, I too would be interested to find that out.

Best,
 John

--------------------------------
John Fox
Senator William McMaster
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox




> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Simon Urbanek
> Sent: July-12-11 5:08 PM
> To: Skelton, James
> Cc: HelpDesk; r-sig-mac at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander
> 
> Andy,
> 
> please check that you have X11 installed. Also see whether clicking on
> the X11 icon in the GUI toolbar does start X11. Finally, try setting
> Sys.setenv(DISPLAY=":0.0")
> before loading tcltk/Rcmdr.
> 
> If that doesn't help, please send me the crash log.
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Skelton, James wrote:
> 
> > I am a brand new user of R, running the Macintosh implementation of
> > R.app
> > 2.13.1 on an iMac 21" (3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo) under OS 10.6.8. I have
> > Administrator privileges on this machine.
> > Upon invoking library(Rcmdr) , I get the notice that tcltk is being
> > called up followed by a system prompt (>). However, the X11 window
> > doesn't open, and nothing at all happens. When I type any legitimate
> > command at the prompt, this appears in the R Console window:
> >
> > *** caught bus error ***
> > address 0x4, cause 'non-existent physical address'
> >
> > Traceback:
> > 1: sys.parent()
> > 2: sys.function(sys.parent())
> > 3: formals(sys.function(sys.parent()))
> > 4: match.arg(encoding)
> > 5: match(match.arg(encoding), c("", "bytes", "UTF-8"))
> > 6: textConnection("rval", "w", local = TRUE)
> > 7: capture.output(print(args(help)))
> > 8: paste(capture.output(print(args(help))), collapse = "")
> > 9: gsub("\\s+", " ", paste(capture.output(print(args(help))), collapse
> > =
> > ""))
> > 10: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
> > 11: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
> > 12: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
> > 13: 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"))})
> > 14: try(gsub("\\s+", " ", paste(capture.output(print(args(help))),
> > collapse = "")), silent = TRUE)
> >
> > Possible actions:
> > 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> > 2: normal R exit
> > 3: exit R without saving workspace
> > 4: exit R saving workspace
> >
> >
> >
> > I've forwarded the entire core dump to Apple and have a copy of it but
> > have no idea how to make sense of it.
> > Odd thing is, this problem doesn't occur on my 2008 Macbook at home,
> > which runs the same Mac OS. It's peculiar to the iMac at my worksite.
> > As I'm hoping to use R in some of my advanced undergrad teaching,
> > it'll be helpful to solve this problem so my students can take
> > advantage of the RCommander GUI.
> >
> > Thanks for any light you can shed on this!
> >
> > --Andy Skelton
> >
> > *****************************
> > J.A. Skelton
> > Dept. of Psychology, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013-2896
> > E-mail: skelton at dickinson.edu
> > Phone: 717-245-1309
> > *****************************
> >
> >
> >
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