[R] crash when opening existing scripts

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 6 Jul 2020, at 23:38, Oliver Balmer <oliver.balmer using unibas.ch> wrote:
> 
> I have a newly installed R (v. 4.0.2) on an all new MacBook Pro with OS 
> Catalina (v. 10.15.4). R works perfectly smooth except for one thing: 
> Many of my scripts (but not all - and consistently the same) will cause 
> R to crash when I attempt to open them either by double-clicking them or 
> by opening them from within R with File>Open Recent. I never had that 
> problem before and I did not find answers to this problem in older posts 
> or StackOverflow. The only way to open them is to open them in another 
> text editor and copy-paste them into a new script within R. But when I 
> then save that new script and try to reopen it, the same thing happens 
> again.
> 

This belongs on the R-SIG-Mac list (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/).

See this thread:  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-June/013575.html

and the solution: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-July/013641.html

Berend Hasselman