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

[DePaolis, Fernando]

OS: Ventura 13.4 (22F66)
Downloaded R-4.3.0-x86_64.pkg from CRAN
Installation: Successful�everything works fine
Suggestion to move the installer to Trash: Declined (because I know I will need the installer again).
CRAN suggests reinstalling Xquartz, which I did a few times on the onset of the symptoms (I don�t do that anymore because there sems to be no point to it).
Use: I only use RStudio and everything works fine, until at a random time a few days later (or hours in a few instances), RStudio fails to �find R�, which doesn�t run on its own or from the console.
Possible emerging conflicts: At the beginning, I thought this could be happening because other software were install afterward, but that is not the case.
Looked for alternatives: I couldn�t find any reference online, so I suspect this is quite specific to my machine and/or environment. About the �environment�, I cannot think of anything, as no changes have been made, except for routine updates (which is unlikely, but not impossible to have undesirable effects).


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: peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 8:48 AM
To: DePaolis, Fernando <fdepaolis using middlebury.edu>
Cc: Calboli Federico (LUKE) <federico.calboli using luke.fi>, r-sig-mac using r-project.org <r-sig-mac using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Serious problem with R on macOS
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OK, so

- OS version?
- What do you do to install?
- What happens when you do it?

e.g.:

- Monterey 12.6.5
- Downloaded R-4.3.0-x86_64.pkg from CRAN
- As user with admin privilege, open from Downloads folder and follow instructions
- "The installation was succesful"
- Close, move to bin.

I gather that on newer OS, you may need to move the installer out of Downloads first.


-pd


> On 6 Jun 2023, at 17:07 , DePaolis, Fernando <fdepaolis using middlebury.edu> wrote:
>
> Thank you all�it is not an RStudio issue. I cannot run R from its app or the command line�It is certainly an R issue.
> Next time it �uninstalls itself� I will try to install it on another user and see what happens (although I have already tried to install it �just for me� or for all users).
>
> Thank you again,
>
>
> Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
> Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
> Associate Professor
> Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
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> From: Calboli Federico (LUKE) <federico.calboli using luke.fi>
> Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 12:54 AM
> To: DePaolis, Fernando <fdepaolis using middlebury.edu>, r-sig-mac using r-project.org <r-sig-mac using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: Serious problem with R on macOS
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> If you can use R.app or R on the terminal, it is a R studio bug.  Have you tested?  Also, �reinstall� works best after removing all actual files, such as the whole ~/.R, all the ~/.R* files, and whatever R studio might add.
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> BW
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> F
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> Federico Calboli
> Tutkija
> Genomiikka ja jalostus
> Luonnonvarakeskus
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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.
> Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
> Associate Professor
> Middlebury Institute of International Studies 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.
>
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> Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
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