[R-SIG-Mac] R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg requires X11?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Mar 18, 2015, at 5:17 PM, zListserv <zlistserv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Simon
> 
> Quick follow-up.
> 
> Does this mean that X11 starts automatically whenever R.app is launched?
> 

No

Cheers,
Simon


> It seems like a waste of resources to have X11 (besides having to wait for it to start).
> 
>> On 2015-03-18, at 17:13, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 17, 2015, at 1:09 PM, zListserv <zlistserv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Following Simon's instructions (abstract below), I installed R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg.
>>> 
>>> Starting R.app yields a message that it requires X11.  I neither need nor want X11.  How do I get rid of this requirement and the message?
>>> 
>> 
>> R.app doesn't need X11, but R does since it comes with X11 support.
>> 
>> BTW: The nightly binaries are now updated so they have the correct R.app and so does the CRAN binary for R 3.1.3.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>>>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have more evidence that points at Xcode. If you use the R.app GUI
>>>> that was compiled at the time of R 3.1.1 - available here:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://r.research.att.com/R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> then all is well. As we discussed earlier, the code did not change at
>>>> all and the underlying R version is irrelevant, so the only piece that
>>>> changed since July last year when this was built was the Xcode version (and
>>>> thus the compilers used). It's not clear to me at all how the Xcode version
>>>> can affect NSTextView so badly, so this will require some more digging. In
>>>> the meantime, please use the above R.app binary.
>>>>>> 
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