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R unable to run on Mac OS 10.4 Tiger

5 messages · Federico Calboli, Rob Goedman, Guillaume Chapron +1 more

Federico Calboli
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On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:05 +0200, Guillaume Chapron wrote:
For the record, in exactly the same condition R works for me. Sorry I
cannot be of any help.

F.
Guillaume Chapron
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Hello,
I'm running a PB G4 with Mac OS 10.4.1. I have downloaded the latest 
version R-2.1.0a.dmg. It appears that R does not work. It launches 
itself, but the window never gets ready, there is written "Loading R..." 
and a small progress wheel keeps turning indefinitely.
Could someone help or suggest something?
THANKS !!
Guillaume
Rob Goedman
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Hi Guillaume,

There is a R-SIG-Mac alias where many of these questions are being  
addressed.

The most likely reason is that you have a .RData file around that its  
trying to load.
It might be missing a library or trying to connect to X11.

Can you check for that 1st in a terminal window (ls -lia). Finder  
does not show .xxx files.
If you reply to me, we can take it from there or switch to R-Sig-Mac.

Rob
On May 24, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Guillaume Chapron wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Dear all,

Thanks for the reply, I solved the issue last night. It appears it is 
was a problem with quicktime library. When I installed Tiger, I dragged 
my Panther quicktime plugin and this was not a good idea. R did not work 
(whatever version) in GUI, but would work in the terminal. I restarted 
the machine and the R would work as GUI, with this error message (at 
least this one, and many times):

2005-05-24 18:42:25.919 R[316] CFLog (21): Error loading 
/Library/QuickTime/DivX 5.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX 5:  error code 
4, error number 0 (Library not loaded: /Library/Application 
Support/DivXNetworks/liblame3.92.dylib
   Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/DivX 
5.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX 5
   Reason: image not found)

I installed DivX stuff and I now get only this message:

2005-05-25 09:16:31.332 R[4042] CFLog (21): Error loading 
/Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType:  error 
code 4, error number 0 (Library not loaded: 
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LiveType.framework/Versions/A/LiveType
   Referenced from: 
/Library/QuickTime/LiveType.component/Contents/MacOS/LiveType
   Reason: image not found)

I suppose i will have to reinstall quicktime 7 and things will be OK. 
But I don't understand why R does need quicktime ??

Thanks
Guillaume

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On May 25, 2005, at 3:19 AM, Guillaume Chapron wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Neither R nor R.app does. Chances are that you pretty much broke your  
Tiger, because all R.app does is to link Cocoa which links AppKit. On  
my Tiger machine it doesn't even touch QuickTime, so it must be your  
plugin or whatever you did to poor Tiger ;). Why don't you just  
remove /Library/Quicktime? It's not a part of Tiger. Tiger's  
QuickTime files are in /System/Library.

If you want to understand better who's loading what, set  
DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES when running R or R.app.

Cheers,
Simon