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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

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

Yes it is a nuisance, but thankfully we seem to have solved the 
problem in the meantiime.

The one thing I at least have learnt is that a note somewhere about 
how to deal with this problem would be appropriate: perhaps in one of 
the FAQs.

Brian Ripley

>
> 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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