Dear R-help team, I am trying to run "R" on my Intel-based Mac. I have installed R, X11 and Tcl/TK (I thought), but the GUI doesn't run. My system administrator doesn't support R and therefore, I'm a little helpless. What can I do? Regards, Ingo
I assume you are running MacOS X 10.4? The Mac version of R does not require X11 or Tcl/TK since it uses a separate GUI interface developed exclusively for the Mac using native widgets and a quartz based graphing mechanism. Try downloading the following binary installer which includes the gui interface: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-2.3.1.dmg -Alex Brown On 29 Sep 2006, at 08:04, Ingo wrote:> Dear R-help team, > I am trying to run "R" on my Intel-based Mac. I have installed R, > X11 and Tcl/TK (I thought), but the GUI doesn't run. My system > administrator doesn't support R and therefore, I'm a little > helpless. What can I do? > > Regards, > > Ingo > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >On 29 Sep 2006, at 08:04, Ingo wrote:> Dear R-help team, > I am trying to run "R" on my Intel-based Mac. I have installed R, > X11 and Tcl/TK (I thought), but the GUI doesn't run. My system > administrator doesn't support R and therefore, I'm a little > helpless. What can I do? > > Regards, > > Ingo > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On 30/09/2006, at 8:00 PM, Rob J Goedman wrote:> Thanks for catching this question. I'd missed Ingo's original email. > > Rcmdr does need X.11 and Tcl/Tk, although it uses the versions that > come with Mac OS 10.4. Hence, as Alex indicates, there is no need to > separately install these. > > Ingo, if you can't get it to work using John's link, let me know > where you get stuck. R-Sig-Mac is an alias dedicated to Mac OS > specific questions.1. R-sig-mac is the place to go for these sorts of questions. This issue is being discussed there right now. 2. The instructions at http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/ Rcmdr/installation-notes.html are not correct and will mislead you. 3. The problems with Tcl/Tk are caused by the nice Aqua GUI. The tcl/tk package or any of its dependencies such as Rcmdr can be built on MacOS in one of two ways: a. use the Apple included (in 10.4.x) AquaTk. b. use an X11 version of Tk Packages built as a. cannot be run from within the R GUI but will launch happily from a command line. The problem is that AquaTk thinks it is the only GUI for the app and fights with the R GUI for possession of the menu bar and system events. They will work if you run R from a shell instead of the GUI. Packages built as b. can be run from inside the R GUI. So this is the standard for the CRAN binary distributions. The current R binary (2.3.1) includes an X11 Tcl/Tk. Make sure that it is installed. Bill Northcott