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

[Mary Meyer]

Thank you, that worked!  I appreciate your help.

Best,
Mary


On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Some other things that might be relevant
>
> the saved workspace ~/.Rdata
> the saved history ~/.Rhistory
> any personal library.
>
> One piece of advice that often works is to start R with --vanilla  
> (e.g. from a terminal 'R --vanilla'): if that works it indicates a  
> problem in one of the startup files and with the help of ?Startup  
> you can narrow the search down.
>
> I hope that helps you here.
>
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
>
>> 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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