2.11 Installing Rattle on macOS
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As of 12 August 2025 the Rattle version is 6.5.8.
Before Installing Rattle
Before you install Rattle as described below, please be sure that R is installed, as detailed in Section 2.1 and be sure to install the required R packages, as detailed in Section 2.2. Please also install XQuartz.
You are then ready to install Rattle.
Installing Rattle Itself
Download the zip archive by tapping on the link:
You can also download the zip archive from the command line if you have curl 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. For newer versions
of macOS you may see a popup with a warning. Tap Done, then open
System Settings, choose Security & Privacy, the scroll down to the
bottom to tap on Open Anyway for rattle. Or else run this command:
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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