Golden Cheetah won't open after R install

[Ryan Switala]

Can somebody please help me troubleshoot. I have installed R (v 3.4.1). I am running windows 7 Professional. Golden Cheetah v 3.4

After enabling R in Golden Cheetah, closing it and trying to open it simply doesn't open. I picked up the R installation directory using the "R.home()" command in R itself, and this is what i am using in GC (see below for GC screenshot)

I have managed to get Golden Cheetah to open via the backdoor running "GoldenCheetah.exe --no-r"

 in cmd, but not sure how to get R working in Golden Cheetah.

Thanks Ryan.

[Ryan Switala]

I found the answer to my problem, but just to share it with others who might see this thread. The problem seems to be that i need to be using R version 3.3.1. 

It seems you can see which version of R is supported in GC. Help>About Golden Cheetah>Version (refer to R at bottom of screen).

[Martin Wifling]

Unfortunately I am facing the same issue.

I am running R3.3.2 and R3.4.1 and RStudio. After a tryout with a testuser with 2 (manual) workouts which worked fine and GC startet correctly, I have activated R3.4.1 in my database. No crash, but GC did not start the next time. Unfortunately also the above workaround starting GC via the shell did not work.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I am running Win10, DEV1708, 32-bit version (older PC...)

[Brett Dikeman]

So apparently the MacOS X version is built against R 3.2.4? 3.4.1-something is current in Brew.

After banging my head against a wall for half an hour, I still can't figure out how to find old versions of the R package in Brew.

How have people gotten R to work on the OS X dev build?

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[Christopher Boone]

You can install older versions of R using Homebrew by pointing it directly to the specific version of the formula. I used the following to install R 3.3.3:

brew cask reinstall https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/bc3e57b7dc3062c5cb9eae873443d607b76ac029/Casks/r-app.rb

Which is working for me with macOS Sierra and GC dev 1708.

Good luck!

Chris

On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 7:41:15 PM UTC-7, Brett wrote:

So apparently the MacOS X version is built against R 3.2.4? 3.4.1-something is current in Brew.

After banging my head against a wall for half an hour, I still can't figure out how to find old versions of the R package in Brew.

How have people gotten R to work on the OS X dev build?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Ryan Switala <ryans...@gmail.com> wrote:

I found the answer to my problem, but just to share it with others who might see this thread. The problem seems to be that i need to be using R version 3.3.1. 

It seems you can see which version of R is supported in GC. Help>About Golden Cheetah>Version (refer to R at bottom of screen).

On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 8:36:22 AM UTC+2, Ryan Switala wrote:

Can somebody please help me troubleshoot. I have installed R (v 3.4.1). I am running windows 7 Professional. Golden Cheetah v 3.4

After enabling R in Golden Cheetah, closing it and trying to open it simply doesn't open. I picked up the R installation directory using the "R.home()" command in R itself, and this is what i am using in GC (see below for GC screenshot)

I have managed to get Golden Cheetah to open via the backdoor running "GoldenCheetah.exe --no-r"

 in cmd, but not sure how to get R working in Golden Cheetah.

Thanks Ryan.

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[Martin Wifling]

Finally I managed to run GC again. I did not know that in Win10 when running a DOS Shell, the command must be entered by a leading .\ to start an exe which is in the same folder ...

[Josephine Varney]

Hi, I am trying to install GC 3.5 (and I tried 3.4) on a mac osx which is already running R3.4.1. However, CG (both versions) won't start and I get `GoldenCheetah quit unexpectedly'.

I assume that this is because I am running R 3.4.1? Does anyone have any fixes for this yet?

Thank you.

[Daniel Holmes]

I noticed Mark was using R version 3.2.5 in one of his videos...

https://vimeo.com/164812094

So I downloaded version 3.2.5 from the link below and it works.

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/

[Josephine Varney]

Thanks Daniel. But I use R daily, so really don't want to go back to an older version.  If it comes to a choice, the latest version of R is more important than GC :(

[Mark Liversedge]

R 3.4.x is only supported on El Capitan or higher which is quite a move to obsolete a lot of hardware.
R 3.3.x is supported on Mavericks, so likely the latest release we will support for now and will be used for Mac builds.
The current builds are 3.2.5, which is too old.

I believe 3.3.x is binary compatible with 3.4.x but cannot guarantee it. The codebase for R is not helpful to us, in honesty, its a pit of snakes. It really does look like software written by statisticians not comp sci folk.

I suspect longer term we are likely to recommend using Python to develop custom charts.

Mark

[Josephine Varney]

Thank you Mark. I understand your problems.

[Karo]

After almost two years it still requires v 3.3.1. Installing that version has solved the problem. Thank you, Ryan!

[Ale Martinez - No direct email please]

Version 3.5 dev builds work with the last R versions.

[Christoph Hanck]

I have R 3.6 installed on my PC (which I use for work, so likewise cannot go back to older versions), and could not get GC 3.4 to start (tried both 32 and 64 bits on standard and recent windows machine, uninstalled, reinstalled, to no avail). Clicking on the desktop link suggests the computer is busy, but then nothing happens. GC 3.3 works, though. Is that a known issue (is R even the culprit) and are there known workarounds?

[Ale Martinez - No direct email please]

El miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2019, 10:20:32 (UTC-3), Christoph Hanck escribió:

I have R 3.6 installed on my PC (which I use for work, so likewise cannot go back to older versions), and could not get GC 3.4 to start (tried both 32 and 64 bits on standard and recent windows machine, uninstalled, reinstalled, to no avail). Clicking on the desktop link suggests the computer is busy, but then nothing happens. GC 3.3 works, though. Is that a known issue (is R even the culprit) and are there known workarounds?

Yes, it is.

If you want to use v3.4 without R integration see https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/wiki/Disable-R-Or-Python, otherwise v3.5 works with R3.6 https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/releases