2.8 Installing Rattle on MacOS

Be sure that R is installed as described in Section 2.1 and that you chose to install it into /usr/local/bin/R. Rattle expects to find R there. You will also need to install XQuartz.

You are then ready to install RattleNG.

Download the zip archive by tapping on the link:

You can also download the zip archive from the command line if you have wget installed:

wget https://access.togaware.com/rattleng-dev-macos.zip -O rattleng-dev-macos.zip

Then either open the zip archive or open a terminal after downloading the zip archive and unzip it locally:

unzip rattleng-dev-macos.zip -d rattleng

Then run the app:

open rattleng/rattle.app

If the OS complains that the app is not trusted and will not be run, tap the Security link and allow rattle to be run.

Troubleshooting

failed to load Cairo DLL

If you see this message then be sure to install XQuartz to be able to utilise the Cairo graphics library for vector based (i.e., infinite resolution) graphics as used by Rattle.



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