[R-SIG-Mac] R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

[Day, Roger S]

Once toubleshooting a persistent problem with R,
to my embarrassment I found that my "clean install"
was not so clean--  the cause of my troubles lay in my .Rprofile
which I had forgotten about.

-Roger Day

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From: r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Steve Lianoglou [mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:22 AM
To: Mary Meyer
Cc: R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

Hi Mary,

On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Mary Meyer wrote:

> Help!   I was running R code and started getting error messages that
> would not stop repeating.  I force-quit R, but when I attempted to
> run it again, it would not start (Icon kept bouncing until I force-
> quit again).  I restarted the computer, then I reinstalled R, but
> that did not fix the problem.  I deleted everything I could find
> related to R, and installed again.  Each time I install I get a
> "successful" message, but it does not start.  I don't know what to
> try next.
>
> I have the latest versions of the operating system.


Can you be a bit more specific about the error messages you were
getting? (I guess if you can't even start R, it's not likely, but
maybe you remember something about what the error was saying that kept
repeating?)

Also, I'm not sure what version 3,1 means in your MBP description,
which MBP are you runnning? (Though, I doubt it's a problem with the
type of computer)

In the meantime:

* I think the only thing you need to delete in order to clean R out of
your system is:

   * the /Library/Frameworks/R.framework directory
   * /Applications/R.app

   Is that what you cleaned?

* After cleaning and re-install (or now, even), can you run R from the
terminal? Just open up Terminal.app and type "R" (no quotes).

-steve

--
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos

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