[R-SIG-Mac] Mac R Gui crashes at startup -- suggestions?

[William Revelle]

At 4:45 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>From the crash report it looks like perhaps your history file has 
>been corrupted. I'd delete it and try again

Byron,

Great advice, but where  is it?

(The crash started just after I copied far too much into the console window.)

Bill


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>On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:26 PM, William Revelle <lists at revelle.net> wrote:
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>>MacBook Pro running  OS 10.5.6
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>>Running R 2.8.1 patched (2008-12-31)  (although same problem with 
>>other installations).
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>>Trying to run R.app Gui  R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit (5313) 
>>but it crashes on loading every time.
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>>Problem just started today, I have reinstalled R 2.8.1 several 
>>times, tried multiple versions of the GUI.  I continue to have it 
>>give a malloc error when it starts.
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>>I can run  R 2.8.1 from the console in X11.  But after using the 
>>GUI, that is painful.
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>>I have restarted multiple times, checked permissions, reinstalled R 
>>(multiple times), tried different GUIs.  Time Travelled back to 
>>yesterday to get what was working fine, all to no avail.
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>>Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Thanks.
>>
>>Bill
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