[R-SIG-Mac] FW: Serious problem with R on macOS

[DePaolis, Fernando]

Uwe Ligges (from CRAN sys admin) recommended that I post this to the list.

Thank you.



Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
Associate Professor
Middlebury Institute of International Studies<http://www.middlebury.edu/institute> at Monterey
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From: DePaolis, Fernando <fdepaolis using middlebury.edu>
Date: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 10:19 AM
To: CRAN-sysadmin using R-project.org <CRAN-sysadmin using R-project.org>
Subject: Serious problem with R on macOS
Hello,
For a few months now, I’ve been having an odd and rather annoying problem. I use RStudio and it frequently cannot start R, producing the error message attached below. This is clearly not the, as I worked on it the night before or even just a few hours earlier. What is clear is that R is not available on my system, although all the files are still there (in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework). It could be that a critical file becomes corrupted, or the system can’t find it. I have not been able to determine whether that is the case, or which file could be affected. I might have re-installed R dozens of times in the last month. This is something that never happened in the previous more than 15 years of using R.

I’ve tried everything I can think of, and the problem persists…and haven’t found any satisfactory feedback online either.
Have you ever heard of a problem like this? Or do you have any suggestions?

Thank you so much for your support.


[A screenshot of a computer error message  Description automatically generated with low confidence]



Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
Associate Professor
Middlebury Institute of International Studies<http://www.middlebury.edu/institute> at Monterey
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