2.8 Installing Rattle on macOS
As of 14 December 2024 the Rattle version is 6.3.40.
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 Rattle.
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:
Then either open the zip archive or open a terminal after downloading the zip archive and unzip it locally:
Then run the 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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