R | Rcmdr ; Rattle on R3.1 and Mac OSX yosemite

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Today I tried to install Rcmdr on my MBP( yosemite ) and found that it was the installation was not successful and kept throwing a lot of errors and also some of the dependancies packages were not getting installed. I also noticed that some of the dependancies are not available for R.3.1 and yosemite. After spending a lot of time googling and trial and error, now I got everything working 

Steps to do
  1. Since Rcmdr uses xWindows system, we need a OSX version of the same. So make sure you have installed the Quartz(X11) from this site -http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
  2. Install macports - https://www.macports.org/install.php
  3. Make sure you have already installed the Xcode. Since some of the dependancies binaries are not available for the current R version, we might have to compile them from source
  4. Download RGtk2 source and cairoDevice source from CRAN ( download the "packaged source")
  5. run the below code.(one by one)
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install pkgconfig
export PATH=/opt/pkgconfig/bin:$PATH
sudo port install gtk2 +x11
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig
R CMD INSTALL [Rgtk2...gz file(downloaded in step4)]
R CMD INSTALL [cairodevice...gz file(downloaded in step4)]
Sys.setenv(PATH=paste0("/opt/pkgconfig/bin:",Sys.getenv("PATH")))
Sys.setenv(PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig")
install.packages("RGtk2", type="source")
install.packages("cairoDevice", type="source")
install.packages("rattle", type="source")

Rcmdr 

 Now go to R-Console (or R-studio) and type 
library(Rcmdr)
and you should see a window pop-up like below



Rattle
The rattle GUI gives access to a range of multivariate graphics, regression and classification routines.

library(rattle)
rattle()

the screen should look something like this



ref:  http://marcoghislanzoni.com/blog/2014/08/29/solved-installing-rattle-r-3-1-mac-os-x-10-9/

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