[R-SIG-Mac] R console

[peter dalgaard]

On Aug 24, 2012, at 12:03 , Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:

> 
> On Aug 22, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Weiwei Shi wrote:
> 
>> I met with the following errors when I select "preference"->General for my
>> R console:
>> 
>> Unable to find application named 'X11.app'
>> 
>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
>> 
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>> 
>> 
>> locale:
>> 
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just for records, you open R.app -> invoke Preferences -> press "General" and you get _always_ that error?
> 


> I'm on MacOSX 10.7.4 and cannot reproduce this behaviour.
> 

Also, at least on my system(s), you cannot actually press General. There's a Grouping of 5 icons, one of which, "Startup", is listed in the first group, labeled General. However, clicking Startup doesn't crash and doesn't seem to do anything related to X11. 

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