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

[John Helly]

Aloha.

My first thought is to check and see if you can run R from the 
command-line.  My second thought is to create a new user and re-install 
R under that user and see if it's your user environment or something 
system-wide.

Good luck.
J.

On 6/5/23 08:32, DePaolis, Fernando wrote:
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> Uwe Ligges (from CRAN sys admin) recommended that I post this to the list.
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> Thank you.
>
> Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
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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
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> Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
> Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
>
> Associate Professor
>
> Middlebury Institute of International Studies 
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