"Request: OSX step by step to get RapidMiner and R extensions working"

drdespair
drdespair New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
Hello,

Can someone please provide me with a step by step to get the R extensions working on my Macbook Pro, I have the latest OSX.

I have been trying to no avail to have it work, it ether hangs on the Initializing Plugin GUI, and in my original attempts I it would not run any of the extensions saying I should try a server or something.

Thank you!

DrD
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  • drdespair
    drdespair New Altair Community Member
    OK, got somewhere..

    So what I have done.

    I used the Environment variable tool to setup the R_Home path, and then used the RapidMinerGUI with the RapidMiner Home path set.

    It seems you need to install the tcltk package from the R website to get the whole thing working. I think the system hangs on the Plugin GUI check because of that.

    I will try a few things and let you guys know.

    DrD
  • drdespair
    drdespair New Altair Community Member
    Well.. it seems to be working, I am still testing using the prediction example from a Physicist in Wall Street.

    One annoying thing ,Every time I start RapidMiner it tries to contact a CRAN server
  • chazzmoney
    chazzmoney New Altair Community Member
    Hi Dr despair,

    Thanks for your input on this.  I too somehow got rapidminer and R talking on Mac OS X - but I can't get it to work on my other machine.  I set up the environment variables in my etc/profile.

    Do you have a step by step for how you did yours?

    Thanks,

    -Charles
  • andk
    andk New Altair Community Member
    hi!

    i am completely new with rapidminer - i try to get the r extension working since two days now and it won't work. i am nearly surrendering, it's frustrating. isn't there anybody out there who could give me a detailed stept by step guide to get it working. i have really tried every hint i have found in other threads.

    R version - 2.12.2
    rapidminer 5.1
    os X 10.6.6
     
    I really appreciate every help!!!
  • land
    land New Altair Community Member
    Hi,

    please give a complete log of all your defined environment variables. This is usually the first step for detecting problems.

    Greetings,
      Sebastian
  • andk
    andk New Altair Community Member
    Sebastian Land wrote:

    Hi,

    please give a complete log of all your defined environment variables. This is usually the first step for detecting problems.

    Greetings,
      Sebastian
    hi thanks for your reply. i installed windows on my mac in the meantime and here everything works fine. merci!

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