Dear John,
-----Original Message----- From: John Maindonald [mailto:john.maindonald at anu.edu.au] Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:36 PM To: John Fox Cc: 'Simon Urbanek'; r-sig-mac at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] installing Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 for X11 on Mountain Lion All that is needed is to do a right click (or its equivalent), where for "approved" software a left click works the needed magic. The user is then asked whether, notwithstanding the lack of an Apple imprimatur, they wish to proceed. A note to this effect might accompany any software that is to be downloaded. Most Mountain Lion users will rather quickly latch onto this.
I'm an occasional Mac user and I didn't know that right-click -> Open works. My response was to find the security option and permanently select "allow applications downloaded from anywhere." The user who contacted me didn't get that far. Mountain Lion has been out for a while and only one person has complained, so you're probably right, though I'm not sure why it's better for people to have to discover the right-click trick than to tell them. I don't think that it will hurt to add a remark to the Rcmdr Mac installation instructions, so I'll do that. Best, John
John Maindonald email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549 Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm On 01/10/2012, at 3:33 AM, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
Dear Simon, I received an email recently from a user trying to install the Rcmdr
package
under OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). It materialized that he was unable to install Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 from the R for Mac OS X Development Tools and
Libraries
page because his security settings didn't permit installation of
software
from "unidentified" developers. The problem was solved by resetting
this
option temporarily. I notice that the R Mac OS X binary itself is now signed to circumvent
the
problem, and wonder whether the same thing can be done for the Tcl/Tk
that's
provided -- or if not whether instructions for proceeding in Mountain
Lion
can be added to the web page. Depending on how the issue is resolved,
I may
add an instruction to the Rcmdr Mac installation notes. Thanks, John ----------------------------------------------- John Fox Senator McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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