[R-SIG-Mac] Help, R crashes on startup

[Day, Roger S]

Another possible culprit is ~/.Rprofile.
Once this was the source of my problem.
A tactic to help isolate the problem is to run

R --vanilla

from the terminal.  Then you can paste in lines from .Rprofile
one at a time, until you encounter the trouble.

Good luck.

Roger Day
University of Pittsburgh Departments of Biomedical Informatics and  
Biostatistics
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On Jun 22, 2010, at 9:14 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Julie Falcon wrote:
> 
>> Dear "R team",
>> 
>> I am a regular user of R as a social scientist, and since last  
>> friday for the first time I've been facing serious problems using R  
>> on a Mac computer.
>> 
>> I couldn't launch anymore R, it was cashing before it could open.  
>> I've searched on the internet to find solutions to my problem. In  
>> the first instance, it was useful, I realised that the file  
>> "history.txt" was the cause of the crash (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#R_002eapp-GUI-crashes-on-startup_0021 
>> ).
>> So, I removed it and R worked again until... this morning.
>> 
>> I am facing the same problem again, although I can't identify  
>> anymore the reason of the crash. This is not caused by "history.txt"  
>> file, nor by "workspace.rdata". I've reinstalled several times the R  
>> application (the lastest one, ie. 2.11.1 as well as an older version  
>> 2.8.1) but this doesn't change anything.
>> 
>> I don't know what to do, therefore I email you to ask you if you  
>> could help me.
>> 
>> I've attached a "R crash report" that may help you, but it was  
>> generated by my computer, not by R (I couldn't find a R crash.log).
> 
> Neither "history.txt" nor "workspace.rdata" are typical sites of  
> corrupted workspaces. The default workspace is a "dot file", i.e. one  
> whose name begins with a <dot> (= "."), named ".Rdata". These files  
> are not visible in the Finder unless you change the behavior to show  
> them. There are many sets of instructions for doing this that will  
> come up on a Google search. The other method would be to open a  
> Terminal window and:
> 
> rm ~/.Rdata
> 
> I do not think that corrupted history files are quite so common a  
> cause, but getting rid of the default history file could be done in a  
> Terminal session with:
> 
> rm ~/.Rhistory
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
>> 
>> I hope this can help you.
>> 
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Julie Falcon
>> Université de Lausanne
>> 
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> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
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