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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Mary Meyer wrote:

> Yes, I would like to know what I *ought* to have done.

Ask on one list.  For beginners, only send a bug report if encouraged 
to do so by someome more experienced.  Unless you are sure it is not 
Mac-specific (or aboute Bioconductor), ask on R-sig-mac, not least 
because Mac-specific questions on R-help will get lost and those on 
R-devel might.

[Not just for Mary:]

Please only send bug reports for things you are *sure* are bugs: 
because > 90% of bug reports are erroneous and they do take up too 
much of R-core's time.  But the ones that get me angry are the serial 
offenders.

Also, please be patient: the experts are in short supply: Simon 
Urbanek is currently travelling, I will be next month ....

Brian Ripley

>
> Thanks again,
> Mary
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:48 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.
>> 
>> 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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>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595