[R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac

John Fox jfox at mcmaster.ca
Fri Nov 11 02:54:25 CET 2011


Dear Simon,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org]
> Sent: November-10-11 6:48 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: r-sig-mac at r-project.org; kristian.liland at umb.no
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Rcmdr 1.7.2 on Mac
> 
> John,
> 
> please see today's R-SIG-Mac posts.

I'm sorry that I reported a problem that you already solved. (I did read the
subjects of the previous posts but didn't understand that they were relevant
to this problem.)

Again, apologies,
 John

> 
> (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)
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> > [R.app GUI 1.42 (5933) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
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> > [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/downloade
> > d_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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > John Fox
> > Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of
> > Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
> >
> >
> >



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