[R-SIG-Mac] R 4.1 for my Mac M1 crashing on installing packages

[Simon Urbanek]

Renato,

I'm glad you have work-around, but I'd still like to get to the core of the issue, we don't want R to crash ;).
Can you, please, check your Console log to see if there is a trace of the crash and if so, send it to me?
Also are you using R in the Terminal or the R.app GUI?

Thanks,
Simon


> On 20/05/2021, at 12:07 AM, Renato Morais <renatomoraisaraujo using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jeroen, fixing the repo connected me with CRAN (it was defaulted to
> '@CRAN@' I think)!
> 
> Cheers,
> Renato
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:00, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen using berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:34 AM Renato Morais
>> <renatomoraisaraujo using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I'm new here, so please forgive my clumsy error reporting.
>>> 
>>> I have just downloaded *R-4.1-branch.pkg* for my Mac M1, as I wanted to
>>> finally enjoy a native normal-speed R (for some reason running v 4.0.5 on
>>> Rosetta was extremely slow on my machine). I also installed the latest
>>> XQuartz, as indicated (v 2.8.1).
>>> 
>>> Sad story is, when I try a simple install.packages command, it first
>>> appears to ignore me, after returning 'Please select a CRAN mirror for
>> use
>>> in this session'. if I insist, it crashes. No useful error messages.
>> Trying
>>> via the Package Installer tab didn't work either. It doesn't find any
>>> packages, indeed it crashes if I ask it to load the list.
>> 
>> This indeed sounds like an xQuartz issue, failing to popup the mirror
>> selection menu. Does everything work if you manually set your CRAN
>> mirror first, e.g:
>> 
>>  options(repos=c(CRAN="https://cloud.r-project.org"))
>> 
>> Alternatively you can disable the popup menus all-together using:
>> 
>>  options(menu.graphics=FALSE)
>> 
>> Which should probably be the default.
>> 
> 
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