[R-SIG-Mac] R installation error caused by a bogus file.

[David Winsemius]

> On Feb 14, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Ossenbruggen, Paul <Paul.Ossenbruggen at unh.edu> wrote:
> 
> I receive the following error whenever I restart R and reload R onto my computer:
> 
> Error: object 'CF.mb' not found
> [R.app GUI 1.70 (7463) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0]
> 
> The object 'CF.mb’ file is a bogus file. In actually, it does not and should not exist and R should not attempting to load it.
> 
> I suspect that I created it by mistake when I worked with RStudio in creating a R package called “CF”. Most likely I typed “CF.mb" instead of “CF.md.” The extension “.md” makes sense. It is extension for a Markdown file. “.mb” stands for some animation program extension, which I am not using. 
> 
> QUESTION: How do I stop R from looking for this object?
> 
> Apparently, R has saved a call to the 'CF.mb’  file somewhere in its memory. My guess if I erase this call, I will be running R the way it is designed.
> 

Have you deleted your `.Rdata` file? It's an invisible file and you may need to use Terminal.app to remove it from you startup directory. Where exactly that might be depends on how Rstudio is configured.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law