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

[Steve Lianoglou]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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.

Sorry .. I don't follow ... so, just out of curiosity, who reported  
anything as a bug?

I'm trying to help clear up what behavior, exactly,  should be avoided  
in the future.

Thanks,
-steve


> 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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Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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