Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl, R & OS X
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Berend Hasselman wrote:
On 28-11-2009, at 03:31, Allin Cottrell wrote:
[snip]
> In gretl, try going to /Tools/Preferences/General, and the
> Programs tab, and change the "Command to launch GNU R" to:
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e R
>
> This works on OS X 10.4.11. (Broken Mac setup: /usr/X11R6/bin is
> not in the default path even after installing X11.)
I don't quite understand what is going on.
In the Terminal what is the output of: "which R" (Leave out the quotes!)
Why use xterm in "Command to launch GNU R"
There are two options for the command:
1: /usr/bin/R
2. /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
The first starts the command line version R and the second
starts the R Gui.
I will try experimenting with the GUI variant. Up till now I've
treated OS X as any other *nix, on the assumption that both xterm
and R will be in the PATH and that one can launch the command-line
R program in an xterm using "xterm -e R".
Testing on OS X 10.4.11 I realized that this didn't work -- not
because R wasn't found, but because xterm was not found. Hence,
for the present I have made the default gretl "Rcommand" for OS X
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e R
Allin.