R 2.11 on Mac OS X

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?

David,

Thank you.  You are correct - I was inadvertently accessing an old version.  Deleting the old and re-installing means I can fire up R V3.0.1 which runs fine.  

However, I still can't get R Studio to start up, receivng the following message: 


ERROR r error 4 (R code execution error) [errormsg=Error in identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch)) :
7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 5
, code=local(source("/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/R/Tools.R", local=TRUE, echo=FALSE, verbose=FALSE, encoding='UTF-8'))]; OCCURRED AT: core::Error r::exec::<anonymous namespace>::evaluateExpressions(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP *, sexp::Protect *) /Users/rstudio/rstudio/src/cpp/r/RExec.cpp:145

Even though I re-installed the latest version 0.97.551.  I wonder if there is an old Library or other support file that was not properly replaced?

David,

Thank you.  You are correct - I was inadvertently accessing an old 
version.  Deleting the old and re-installing means I can fire up R 
V3.0.1 which runs fine.

However, I still can't get R Studio to start up, receivng the following

message:


   ERROR r error 4 (R code execution error) [errormsg=Error in
   identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch)) :

   7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 5

   ,
code=local(source("/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/R/Tools.R",
  local=TRUE, echo=FALSE, verbose=FALSE, encoding='UTF-8'))]; OCCURRED
   AT: core::Error r::exec::<anonymous
  namespace>::evaluateExpressions(SEXP, SEXP, SEXP *, sexp::Protect *)
   /Users/rstudio/rstudio/src/cpp/r/RExec.cpp:145



Even though I re-installed the latest version 0.97.551.  I wonder if 
there is an old Library or other support file that was not properly 
replaced?

Thank you

Norman Jessup

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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