Hi, I'm new to R. I was wondering if anyone has an OS X native installation (not Carbon) of R on a G3 Macintosh that is able to run linear regression? I installed Jan de Leeuw's R binary for OS 10.2 Jaguar on my laptop, which is still a G3 model. When I try to run a simple regression, using lm, I get an "Illegal Instruction" message and R quits. Jan thinks it may be the case that his R binary depends on a G4 instruction (I could provide console output, but I don't know what it means). Anyway, I'm curious if there is *some* way of getting R running without this problem on a G3. Perhaps I should try installing R using Fink? Are there instructions for how to do this somewhere? (Wish I didn't have to install the developer tools, because there isn't a lot of space on my hard disk.) Cheers, Peter
Hi: Install R using fink doesn't help. I installed r-base-atlas 1.6.1-3 with fink on an IBook G3 and I'm getting the same behavior. Whenever I try to get a lm or an aov R quits with "Illegal instruction". Maybe is a bug. Regards. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Peter Muhlberger wrote:> Hi, I'm new to R. I was wondering if anyone has an OS X native installation > (not Carbon) of R on a G3 Macintosh that is able to run linear regression? > I installed Jan de Leeuw's R binary for OS 10.2 Jaguar on my laptop, which > is still a G3 model. When I try to run a simple regression, using lm, I get > an "Illegal Instruction" message and R quits. Jan thinks it may be the case > that his R binary depends on a G4 instruction (I could provide console > output, but I don't know what it means). Anyway, I'm curious if there is > *some* way of getting R running without this problem on a G3. Perhaps I > should try installing R using Fink? Are there instructions for how to do > this somewhere? (Wish I didn't have to install the developer tools, because > there isn't a lot of space on my hard disk.) > > Cheers, > > Peter > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >-- Ulises M. Alvarez LAB. DE ONDAS DE CHOQUE FISICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGIA AVANZADA UNAM umalvarez at fata.unam.mx
First, let me thank all the folks who replied, many of which didn't make it
into the digest.
The following summarizes their experiences w/ lm on a G3 Mac. Apparently
some people have lm in R working w/ apparently the same configuration that
doesn't work for others:
Machine Operating System R Configuration Result
G3 iBook 10.2 Jan's OS X Binary lm works
Pbook 500mhz G3 10.2 Jan's OS X Binary lm fails
PB 400mhz G3 Pismo 10.2.4 Jan's OS X Binary lm fails
Beige G3 OS X Jan's OS X Binary lm fails
Beige G3 OS X Fink'ed lm works
G3 iBook OS X Fink'ed r-base-atlas 1.6.1-3 lm fails
G3 Laptop OS X? Carbon rm162.sit lm works
G3 OS X? Carbon rm162.sit lm works
These are responses from the following folks:
D.G. , David, Peter (me), Steve, Steve, Ulises, Albyn, Martin
>From the above, the carbon version always seems to work, the finked version
worked for one person and not the other, and Jan's binary worked for 1
person but not three others.
Peter