[R-SIG-Mac] trouble running invoking R from the terminal in a new install

[Jonathan Chapman]

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Jonathan M. Chapman, DVM
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> On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:17 AM, "Catherine A. Lozupone" <Catherine.Lozupone at colorado.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks so much Susan and Kasper!
> 
> I did have an alias. It works now. You guys are awesome :-)
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Susan Holmes <susanatstat at gmail.com<mailto:susanatstat at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Catherine
> It will depend on your path variable,
> if you look at the path by doing
> 
> echo $PATH
> 
> Normally you should see in the path something that includes
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> 
> if you do
> whereis R
> it should answer
> /usr/bin/R
> which is probably an alias
> 
> 
> 
> Susan Holmes
> Professor, Statistics and BioX
> John Henry Samter University Fellow
> in Undergraduate Education
> Director, Mathematical and Computational Sciences
> Stanford
> http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~susan/
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Catherine A. Lozupone <Catherine.Lozupone at colorado.edu<mailto:Catherine.Lozupone at colorado.edu>> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am on Mac OS X Version 10.8.5. I recently installed R-3.0.2.pkg on my machine which by default put the R application in my /Applications folder. When I envoke R by double clicking on the R application file in my Applications folder it opens up a GUI just fine. However, when I try to invoke R from a terminal window I get the error "-bash: R64: command not found." This appears to be unrelated to R not being in my path. /Applications is in my path and when I cd to the /Applications folder and try and invoke R by typing "R" or "R --help" I get the same "command not found" error. I read in the R installation and Administration manual that "A version of R can be run directly from the command-line as e.g. /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/bin/R). However when I cd to this directory and type "R" I get the same "command not found" error again. It also does not appear related to R not being executable. The R installation in my /Applications folder looks like thi!
> s with ls -l:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x    3 root      admin            102 Feb 12 05:20 R.app
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cathy
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