Radford Neal

Thanks for the report. I've just started playing myself with pqR on a Mac, but haven't tried the GUI yet. As others have reported, helper threads don't work at all...

Or, continuing my speculation, could it be that the GUI was compiled with a suitable compiler, but without the -fopenmp option to gcc?

I'm planning to try this out myself soon. I'll see whether I can figure out a solution. Thanks for trying it, and getting as far as identifying the problem here.

From a quick look at the R GUI code, it seems that it doesn't call the usual R mainloop procedure (in src/main.c), which is where helpers_startup is called to set...

Calling setup_Rmainloop isn't sufficient. The actual Rf_mainloop procedure needs to be called. It's not possible for the full setup to be done in a separate "setup" function because OpenMP creates...

Hi. Unfortunately, there are currently no pre-compiled versions for any platform. You have to build it from source. I may provide executables sometime soon, but not until after the next...

Have you read the documentation linked to from index.html, especially the installation instructions in install.html?