Re: st: Run R through state - rsource

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Daniel Marcelino wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how 'rsource' - a user written package could
> works on Mac. Basically, this package send R commands through Stata
> prompt. To do so, it needs to find and execute R on background.
> The command works fine on Windows, under Mac environment, however, I'm
> not able to get it working.
> I've asked the Roger Newson who wrote this package, but unfortunately
> he doesn't have a clue on this. I'm wondering if someone else has seen
> it before.
> The following line tells Stata to find the R application and run it,
> however, I've had no answer in my screen.
>
>
> global Rterm_path "/Applications/R64.app/Contents/MacOS/R"
> global Rterm_options `"--vanilla"'
> rsource using mytest.R

I am not a Mac user, but since no one else has responded, I can suggest a 
few steps to take.

Open a terminal window and enter

 /Applications/R64.app/Contents/MacOS/R

Does R run? If not, you have found the problem, and just need to find the 
solution. Try:

 whereis R

and that should tell you the correct path. It is possible that setting the 
path to just "R" would work, and that setting the full path is just making 
trouble.

Dan Feenberg

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