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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 15:55 , Jordan Thomson wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.  The Framework folder and contents are  
> all there at /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9, including  
> the library file (libR.dylib).

Are you really sure? Run this in Terminal:

file /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/lib/ 
libR.dylib

You should see something like

hagal:urbanek$ file /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/ 
Resources/lib/libR.dylib
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/lib/libR.dylib:  
Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/lib/libR.dylib  
(for architecture ppc):	Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.9/Resources/lib/libR.dylib  
(for architecture i386):	Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386

and just to make sure that all is well you can also try

hagal:urbanek$ file -L /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R: Mach-O universal binary with 2  
architectures
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R (for architecture ppc):	Mach-O  
dynamically linked shared library ppc
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/R (for architecture i386):	Mach-O  
dynamically linked shared library i386

Cheers,
Simon



> For some reason, however, R still won't load that library and  
> crashes on launch.
>
> I'm not sure why that would be.  Do you have any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Jordy
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Lianoglou" <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com>
> To: "Jordan Thomson" <jathomso at sfu.ca>
> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:20:12 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada  
> Pacific
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R crash on startup in OS X
>
> 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
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
>   |  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
>   |  Weill Medical College of Cornell University
> Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
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