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

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Feb 13 21:03:04 CET 2014


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On Feb 12, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:

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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 t!
> hi!
>> s with ls -l:
>> 
>> drwxrwxr-x    3 root      admin            102 Feb 12 05:20 R.app
>> 
>> Any advice?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Cathy
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