[R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac

Fri Nov 11 00:47:47 CET 2011

John,

please see today's R-SIG-Mac posts.

(And FWIW the run is done so you if you use r.research.att.com as repos you'll get the updated packages - I guess CRAN will follow in a few hours).

Cheers,
Simon

On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:38 PM, John Fox wrote:

> Dear Simon,
> 
> I was hoping that you'd pick this up -- thanks.
> 
> Here's an entire session, including installing the package, trying to load it (showing the error), and the session info. As I said, when I install from source (also from CRAN), there's no problem.
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
> ------------ snip --------------
> 
> 
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> 
>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
> 
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> 
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
> 
> [R.app GUI 1.42 (5933) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
> 
> [History restored from /Users/jfox/.Rapp.history]
> 
>> install.packages("Rcmdr")
> trying URL 'http://probability.ca/cran/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.14/Rcmdr_1.7-2.tgz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2989140 bytes (2.9 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2.9 Mb
> 
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	/var/folders/lg/jw1b4glj3ms49rfy9744jvdh0000gn/T//RtmpMvycwZ/downloaded_packages
> 
>> library(Rcmdr)
> Loading required package: tcltk
> Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
> Loading required package: car
> Loading required package: MASS
> Loading required package: nnet
> Loading required package: survival
> Loading required package: splines
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
>  unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/Rcmdr/libs/x86_64/Rcmdr.so':
>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/Rcmdr/libs/x86_64/Rcmdr.so, 6): Library not loaded: @rpath/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14/Resources/library/Rcmdr/libs/x86_64/Rcmdr.so
>  Reason: image not found
> Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘Rcmdr’
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
> [9] base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] car_2.0-11       survival_2.36-10 nnet_7.3-1       MASS_7.3-16     
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.0
>> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org] 
>> Sent: November-10-11 6:29 PM
>> To: John Fox
>> Cc: 'Kristian Hovde Liland'; r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac
>> 
>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
>>> R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> John Fox
> Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> 	
> 
> 