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<br><div><div>On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Weiwei Shi <<a href="mailto:helprhelp@gmail.com">helprhelp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I am using OS X 10.8 and have XQuartz installed. I can still reproduce the<br>errors. Do you think R for mac will correct that problem?<br><br>To make the problem clear again, if you click the "startup" under the top<br>bar (below the "General"), the problem comes out; while if you directly<br>click on Startup on the bar menu, it is fine.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Weiwei<br><br><br>On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Simon Urbanek <<a href="mailto:Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org">Simon.Urbanek@r-project.org</a><br><blockquote type="cite">wrote:<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Marc Schwartz <<a href="mailto:marc_schwartz@me.com">marc_schwartz@me.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Noia Raindrops <<a href="mailto:noia.raindrops@gmail.com">noia.raindrops@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote>wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br><br>I thing you need to install X11.app.<br>see: <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293</a><br></blockquote><br><br>Strictly speaking, that is only needed on Mountain Lion, as prior<br></blockquote>versions of OSX include X11 on the installation DVD/DMG.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>I don't use the R OSX GUI, but Emacs/ESS. That being said, I can<br></blockquote>replicate the problem on Mountain Lion (10.8.1) with XQuartz installed.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>If Weiwei is using ML, then he should install the above, however note<br></blockquote>that the name of the app is now XQuartz.app and not X11.app. So even if<br>installed, the GUI icon selection will still fail.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>If Weiwei is not using ML, then X11 is available on the installation<br></blockquote>DVD on pre-Lion versions of OSX, or if on Lion (10.7) it is available from<br>the 'Packages' folder on the install DMG.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>I am adding John Fox as a cc: to this e-mail as in the course of<br></blockquote>searching, I noted the R Commander installation instructions (<br><a href="http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html">http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/installation-notes.html</a>),<br>which includes mention of X11.app, but not XQuartz.app for Mountain Lion.<br>So that page and related documentation will need to be updated.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>... and just to be explicit - there is no X11 on OS X 10.8 anymore. Apple<br>has removed it from the OS and no longer supports it.<br><br>One X11 build is available as 3rd party download from<br><a href="http://xquartz.macosforge.org">http://xquartz.macosforge.org</a> but it is no longer Apple's X11 as included<br>in previous OS X versions. The current R GUI release only supports Apple's<br>X11 (i.e., the autostart etc.; you can still use X11 R packages with any<br>X11 implementation).<br><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>Weiwei Shi, Ph.D<br>Research Scientist<br><br><br>"Did you always know?"<br>"No, I did not. But I believed..."<br>---Matrix III<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[[alternative HTML version deleted]]<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>R-SIG-Mac mailing list<br><a href="mailto:R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org">R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org</a><br>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>