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

[Sarah Goslee]

Hi,

I see you've gotten all kinds of R-specific suggestions and feedback,
but I wonder if this might be a more fundamental problem related to
the "This file cannot be found" bug that is persisting in Mac OS

cf https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/updated-to-13-1-and-now-file-cant-be-found.2373951/

I haven't encountered this problem with applications, but certainly it
has been a pesky problem with files.

Usually trying again resolves it for files.

Sarah

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:30 AM DePaolis, Fernando
<fdepaolis using middlebury.edu> wrote:
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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
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> I’ve tried everything I can think of, and the problem persists…and haven’t found any satisfactory feedback online either.
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> Have you ever heard of a problem like this? Or do you have any suggestions?
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> Thank you so much for your support.
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> Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
> Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
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> Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
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