[R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander
John Fox
jfox at mcmaster.ca
Tue Jul 12 23:38:41 CEST 2011
Dear all,
As a slight addendum, I intend in future to recommend that the Rcmdr be
installed with install.packages("Rcmdr") and then to let it install its own
dependencies on first use; with the current version of the Rcmdr package,
this will cut down on the number of packages installed.
Best,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net]
> Sent: July-12-11 5:32 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: 'Simon Urbanek'; 'Skelton, James'; 'HelpDesk'; r-sig-mac at r-
> project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Tcltk hangs when I invoke RCommander
>
>
> 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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