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How can I use R 1.9.1 on a Ibook G3?

12 messages · Romuald Riem, Ulises M. Alvarez, rriem@free.fr +6 more

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Hello,

I can't use the current package of R 1.9.1 on my good old Ibook G3 and I
haven't a G4. R 1.9.0 works fine.

How can I use this new version of R on my computer ?

Thanks in advance

Romuald Riem
Anesth?sie R?animation chirurgicale
Nantes
France
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Hi!

I'm running 1.9.1 on a white iBook G3. I downloaded the sources and then 
follow the instructions on the RMacOS-FAQ to compile and install R.

I'm using "Panther" 10.3.4, with the Developer tools and the X server, and 
fink 0.7.0.cvs

Good look.
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Romuald Riem wrote:

            

  
    
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On Jul 1, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Romuald Riem wrote:

            
What exactly is the problem? "I can't use" isn't very specific ... 
please provide your OS version, how you installed R, what goes wrong, 
output of the console etc. etc.

Simon
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Selon Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek@math.uni-augsburg.de>:
Dear all,

It's sure I was too laconic in my previous message.

Here is my problem:
- the computer: an Ibook G3, with 10.2.8
-  R version: the package downloaded from CRAN
- the problem(s): first, when I use the R 1.9.1 package, the installation 
begins and stops because "a problem occurs". Sorry, no console log.
second, in the "read me" file the required configuration is os 10.2 and a G4.
third, I'm quite surprise because the installation program doesn't ask for the 
administrator password.

So, is there an easier way to install R 1.9.1 than downloading and compilling 
sources ?

Thanks in advance.


Romuald Riem
Anesth?sie r?animation chirurgicale
Nantes 
France
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This is how I installed my ibook:

Using a complete binary install with all the packages:
ie Jan De Leuuw's complete binary install from the ucla
website http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub/

you have to first update your OS to 10.3
otheriwse it doesn't work.

Susan Holmes
Associate Professor
Statistics
Stanford
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I would guess that R 1.9.1 was built with a 10.3 deployment target 
while 1.9.0 was built with a 10.2 deployment target. Though it is 
strange that it didn't ask for the admin password---so maybe just the 
installer is borked. Our remaining 10.2 user is unfortunately away for 
the long weekend so I can't bug him about doing an install. I'm going 
to be installing R on a fresh 10.3 today so I can at least check for 
the bad installer, but not a 10.3 deployment target.
On Jul 2, 2004, at 7:59 AM, rriem@free.fr wrote:

            
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Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu)
"Oook" -- The Librarian
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Hello All,

I built a package under OSX 3.3.4 and built a source package out of it by
invoking r cmd build --binary etc.

The package works fine when I install it using the package using the menu
Packages > Install from local file > From source package file (tar.gz).

However, when I do the same on another mac with OSX 2.8, installation fails
miserably giving the following errors:
Can anyone explain to me why this occurs and what I can about this?

All tips appreciated,

best, ingmar visser
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Wide character support is in libSystem for OS 10.3 and not for OS 10.2.
On Jul 2, 2004, at 7:46, Ingmar Visser wrote:

            
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On Jul 2, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Byron Ellis wrote:

            
I don't really know, Stefano compiled it, but AFAIK he compiled it on a 
Jaguar machine, so it should be 10.2 target.
The installer shouldn't need a password if you're admin user. The 
password is only needed if you go for root authentication or if the 
user is no admin.
My Jaguar machine's HDD crashed, so ATM I have no Jag machine around 
either.

Still, without the installer log, I don't think we can help Romuald, 
because there's no way of knowing what happens ... and from his last 
post the problem was during the installation and not running R itself.

Cheers,
Simon
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On Jul 2, 2004, at 4:24 PM, Susan Holmes wrote:
lol, I like this one :) A short by-the-way remark :) But AFAIR 10.3 
update is not quite free (or is it just us, poor Europeans that must 
pay for it?) I wish it was, but then, Apple has to finance the great 
innovations somehow (well, ok, that's what the iPod sales are for ;)). 
R doesn't really use anything 10.3 specific, so I see no reason why to 
not support 10.2 ...

Simon
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On Jul 2, 2004, at 10:36 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

            
the framework has been built on Jaguar
stefano
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On Jul 2, 2004, at 10:36 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

            
the framework has been built on Jaguar
stefano