[R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac

[Simon Urbanek]

John,

can you, please, be more specific? Rcmds from CRAN works just fine for me -- can you at least include the exact error and sessionInfo()?

Thanks,
Simon

On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:24 PM, John Fox wrote:

> 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
> 
> --------------------------------
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you again for your feedback after my talk at useR! on teaching
>> statistics to natural science students.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Kristian Hovde Liland
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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