R help - Apr 2008 - New user, requesting help with MAC installation of R

Hi:

Yesterday I downloaded R and got it up and running on my PC without a  
hitch, not so when I tried to do the same on my Mac powerbook, using  
Mac OSX: version 10.4.11..  I have virtually no experience, so I  
can't tell what exactly went wrong.

At first it appeared that the software loaded correctly, it seemed  
like I was able to install R , and  I even successfully unpacked  
the   package 'scatterplot3d' and was able to run some rudimentary  
commands.

However, I did not get a graphics window  when I tried to follow the  
same sequence of commands (following a tutorial) that worked on my  
PC-- basically everything worked except for the actual plot command:

 > plot(x,y)

I did this in the command mode in a terminal window, but no graphics  
window came up.

Can you please advise? THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Sophia

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I guess that the default is to plot to a ps file rather than to a  
graphics window when using R from the terminal.
hth, Ingmar

On 10 Apr 2008, at 12:02, Sophia Yancopoulos wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Yesterday I downloaded R and got it up and running on my PC without a
> hitch, not so when I tried to do the same on my Mac powerbook, using
> Mac OSX: version 10.4.11..  I have virtually no experience, so I
> can't tell what exactly went wrong.
>
> At first it appeared that the software loaded correctly, it seemed
> like I was able to install R , and  I even successfully unpacked
> the   package 'scatterplot3d' and was able to run some rudimentary
> commands.
>
> However, I did not get a graphics window  when I tried to follow the
> same sequence of commands (following a tutorial) that worked on my
> PC-- basically everything worked except for the actual plot command:
>
>> plot(x,y)
>
> I did this in the command mode in a terminal window, but no graphics
> window came up.
>
> Can you please advise? THANKS IN ADVANCE!
>
> Sophia
>
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Hi
The graphics commands should work without problem. On Mac the default
graphics window is a quarz device. Did you get the 'official' mac
binary from CRAN with GUI? If the problem persits you can ask in the
mailing list R-SIG-Mac (see instructions for posting:
http://www.r-project.org/mail.html)
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