Dear Stuart, > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Stuart Vyse > Sent: January-08-09 10:41 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Mac woes > > I am new to R but have spent a little time messing around with it. I > am running version 2.8.1 under Leopard OS 10.5 on a power PC and also > on my laptop, which is Intel. Unless, I am wrong, this version is just > a bit buggy. > > 1. In the R Commander, there is no direct entry of data. The Edit menu > does not include a "New data set" choice, as advertised in the Windows > version.
First, you shouldn't necessarily blame R for failings of the R Commander, since it is a contributed package and not part of the base system. In this case, however, the "New data set" menu item is absent under Mac OS X because the data editor hangs on an empty data frame -- at least when I tried it. > > 2. Entering data from a text file is not always trouble free. > Variables do not always seem to be understood as variables. It's not possible to know what the source of the difficulty is without the files that are causing problems. I suspect that the data files aren't properly prepared. Can you provide an example? > Scatterplot and Matrix scatterplot options under Graph are grayed out > when they shouldn't be. The scatterplot menu item is grayed out if there are fewer than two numerical variables in the active data set; the scatterplot-matrix item is grayed out if there are fewer than three numerical variables. That seems sensible to me, but again, without the data, it's not possible to know whether the Rcmdr is behaving incorrectly or whether you want it to do something that it considers unreasonable, such as making a scatterplot for categorical variables. > > 3. Finally, attempting to edit your imported data file (by clicking > the "Edit data set") does open an editor window, but clicking around > in it to delete variables, etc, invariably leads to the program > hanging. The spinning beach ball. Here, the Rcmdr invokes the R data editor, and I've encountered problems similar to those that you describe with the data editor on the Mac, both when called from the Rcmdr and from the R command prompt. For example, if I load just the car package and edit(Prestige), adding variables and rows, and deleting variables and rows, eventually I can make R hang or, on exit, produce an error. I'm running R 2.8.1 under Mac OS X 10.5.5. Perhaps I should suppress the edit button as well. > > Am I missing something? Any suggestions? Yes, be more specific about what produces the problems you're experiencing. Regards, John > > SV > > Stuart Vyse > Professor > Box 5621 web: http://www.stuartvyse.com > Department of Psychology Phone: 860-439-2339 > Connecticut College FAX 860-439-5300 > New London, CT 06320 email: stuart.v...@conncoll.edu > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
