[kepler-dev] [Bug 5025] Couldn't run the workflows 00-StatisticalSummary and 08-CommandLine_2

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5025

--- Comment #12 from Derik Barseghian <barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2010-05-26 14:41:50 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > (In reply to comment #8)
> > > (In reply to comment #7)
> > > > Error message about R not being on path should properly show now on trunk at
> > > > r24573 and 2.0 at r24576. Leaving open for a bit more testing. One additional
> > > > thing is that with or without this change, I'm currently getting an error only
> > > > on 2.0 branch when trying to run a workflow that uses an RExpression...
> > > 
> > > This is on a 10.5 mac with R 2.10.1 with path set for R.
> > 
> > When using R 2.9.1 this doesn't happen. Jing installed R 2.10.1 with a dmg from
> > the web, and this problem didn't happen for him on his 10.5 mac on kepler 2.0
> > (same setup as me). It's looking like there may be something wrong with my
> > 2.10.1 install (even though nothing looks obviously wrong from cmd line). I'll
> > reinstall 2.10.1 using macports, and if it still doesn't work, I'll try the
> > dmg.
> 
> Reinstalling R 2.10.1 with macports didn't help.
> Installing R 2.11.1 from the package on the R site worked. 
> Updating macports and installing R 2.11.1 also didn't work, for 2.0 or trunk,
> so I may have been wrong originally about this being a 2.0 only bug. 
> 
> I would say we could close this if someone else can verify this problem with R
> installed via macports, and if we add messages to the relevant places (e.g.
> installer) saying to install R on the mac using the R site's installer.

I tried R 2.11.1 installed via macports on a 10.6 macbook last night, and it
worked fine.
I also tried R 2.11.1 via macports on a different 10.5 macbook today, and it
also worked.
So it looks like my issue above is somehow particular to R using macports on my
main 10.5 machine.

So in summary, this bug can stay closed, and no need to add documentation
warning a user to not install R with macports. A note saying they'll need to
install R (including augmenting their PATH) for the R workflows would be good,
but the R actor's error message will now come up again if that's not the case.

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