[R-SIG-Mac] R crash on startup in OS X

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi Jordan,

On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Jordan Thomson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having trouble running the latest version of R (2.9.2) in Mac OS  
> X 10.4.11.  Once installed, the program crashes on launch, with the  
> crash log giving the following error:
>
> Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/ 
> Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Users/jordythomson/Desktop/All Things Academic/ 
> Courses and TA Files/R Workshop/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
>  Reason: image not found
>
>
> The folder R is trying to access no longer exists.  I had an older  
> version of R there but uninstalled it and deleted the folder some  
> time ago.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I'm not sure how this is possible?

Your new version of R (2.9.2) is installed in precisely that  
folder ... the R.app file in your ../All Things Academic/../.. is  
simply referencing the R "system" installed in /Library/Frameworks/ 
R.framework/....

So, in short, you need /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9  
and its contents to be there to have a working R on your system.

Does that help?

-steve

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