[R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac

[John Fox]

Dear Kristian,

Odd as it seems, I think that the problem is with the CRAN build of the
Rcmdr package. When I tried installing the Rcmdr package version 1.7-2 on my
own Mac (OS X Lion, R 2.14.0) from CRAN via install.packages("Rcmdr") I got
the same error as your students, but when I installed from CRAN sources,
install.packages("Rcmdr", type="source"), the package worked just fine.
(There is one .c file in the Rcmdr sources.)

I'm not sure what's going on and thus have copied this response to the R Mac
email list for comments.

Best,
 John

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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: Kristian Hovde Liland [mailto:kristian.liland at umb.no]
> Sent: November-10-11 4:39 PM
> To: 'jfox at mcmaster.ca'
> Subject: Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac
> 
> Dear John Fox.
> 
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> 
> Thank you again for your feedback after my talk at useR! on teaching
> statistics to natural science students.
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> 
> I am getting feedback from several Mac users that are installing Rcmdr
> 1.7.2 on a fresh install of R 2.14.0 that the R Commander will not
> launch. There is an error concerning a missing file named Rcmdr.so both
> for 32-bit and 64-bit installations.
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> 
> Do you have any tips? Or do you know where I can get hold of the Mac
> version of Rcmdr 1.7.0 as a temporary fix?
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> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kristian Hovde Liland
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