Message-ID: <5F01B7CB-3938-49E6-9D2F-21CC98291175@comcast.net>
Date: 2013-06-22T08:27:58Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: R 2.11 on Mac OS X
In-Reply-To: <51C50B9B.2080005@tpg.com.au>
On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Norman Jessup wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently upgraded to R 2.11.1 on Mac OS X 10.8.4. Now when I start R up I get the following message:
>
> Error in identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch)) :
> 7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 5
> Error in normalizePath(dirname(pkgpath), "/", TRUE) :
> 3 arguments passed to .Internal(normalizePath) which requires 1
> cannot find system Renviron
>
> I get a similar message with user-defined functions ( i.e "X arguments passed when Y defined" ) though the functions appear to work. This problem is also encountered when Rstudio fires up and so it cannot run now.
>
> I did find a post that suggested it may be due to R accessing an old, possibly 32 bit library (I used to have 32 and 64 bit R installed and they both ran without trouble). Possibly I need to completely clean out the installation and start again? but I'm not sure precisely where the R support files are stored on Macs. Can anyone give me a pointer and/or suggest an alternative fix?
R 2.11.1 is a rather archaic version. The current version is 3.0.1. You seems to have skipped major versions 2.12, 2.13,, 2.14 2.15. I doubt that OSX 10.8.4 was available when 2.11.1 was compiled. There is a mailing list for MacOS versions of R but I doubt there will be much interest in supporting version 2.11.1 on OSX 10.8.4. I suggest you install instead version 3.0.1
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA