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

[Byron Ellis]

It's probably a file called .Rhistory in your home directory.



On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:09 PM, William Revelle <lists at revelle.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:26 PM, William Revelle <lists at revelle.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> MacBook Pro running  OS 10.5.6
>>>
>>> Running R 2.8.1 patched (2008-12-31)  (although same problem with  
>>> other installations).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I can run  R 2.8.1 from the console in X11.  But after using the  
>>> GUI, that is painful.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Bill
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