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

[William Revelle]

At 5:43 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>It's probably a file called .Rhistory in your home directory.

Ah, wonderful.  Yes, that was it.
Thank you.

Bill


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>On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:09 PM, William Revelle <lists at revelle.net> wrote:
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>>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
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>>Byron,
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>>Great advice, but where  is it?
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>>(The crash started just after I copied far too much into the console window.)
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>>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).
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
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>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Bill
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