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

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

It is considered extremely bad behavior to report something like this  
as bug (see recent post on R-devel).

Kasper

On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:50 , Mary Meyer wrote:

> Thank you, that worked!  It's now again running happily.
>
> Best,
> Mary
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
>> Yes, remove  .Rhistory and possibly also .RData and your .Rprofile
>>
>> Kasper
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:29 , William Revelle wrote:
>>
>>> Mary,
>>> A somewhat similar problem happened to me in January.
>>> Following the advice of Byron Ellis , I removed the .Rhistory file
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> At 5:43 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>>>> It's probably a file called .Rhistory in your home directory.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 9:11 AM -0700 3/2/09, 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.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much for your time.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Mary Meyer
>>>> Statistics Department
>>>> Colorado State University
>>>>
>>>> meyer at stat.colostate.edu
>>>>
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