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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 05.06.2023 20:32, DePaolis, Fernando wrote:
> Uwe Ligges (from CRAN sys admin) recommended that I post this to the list.

But he did not suggest to post in html nor to post the same mail again 
after he asked you whether you can start R without R Studio. And he 
alkso aksed you to ask here only if R also fails to start without RStudio.

Uwe Ligges




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> 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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