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

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:18 PM, John Fox wrote:

> 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.

The second step in those directions was my guess as to the lesion. My  
understanding is that in 10.5 and 10.6 X11 is a default installation.

-- 
David
>
> 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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David Winsemius, MD
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