[R] open file on R GUI results in spinning wheel and frozen R - Mac OS

[Bert Gunter]

You might do better on r-sig-mac  for this.

Cheers,
Bert


Bert Gunter

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:24 AM Gonçalo Ferraz <gferraz29 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’ve been using R-studio for a while and today I needed to try something
> directly on the R-GUI.
>
> But when I try to open any *.R file I get a spinning wheel and R freezes.
> I can only shut it down with ‘force quit’.
>
> I have deleted and re-installed R three times, each time trying to run a
> more thorough uninstall, but the problem persists.
>
> I am using Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 and the latest version of R ->  R 4.0.2
> GUI 1.72 Catalina build (7847)
>
> Strangely, as this problem was happening on the R GUI, I was still able to
> open R scripts on RStudio. But now I uninstalled RStudio as well, in the
> latest attempt to start from scratch.
>
> Is this problem familiar to anyone?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Gonçalo
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