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

[zListserv]

Then how do I prevent X11 from starting automatically (which it started to do after I installed R-GUI-6783-3.1-mavericks-Release.dmg, and continued to do so after I reinstalled R from CRAN)?

> On 2015-03-18, at 19:51, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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