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

[DePaolis, Fernando]

This is what I got when trying to run R from the console




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During startup - Warning message:

package ‘datasets’ in options("defaultPackages") was not found

Error in loadNamespace(name) : object 'pkgInfo' not found

In addition: Warning message:

In loadNamespace(name) : package ‘compiler’ has no 'package.rds' in Meta/

Fatal error: unable to initialize the JIT





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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Date: Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 9:51 AM
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On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:43 AM DePaolis, Fernando <fdepaolis using middlebury.edu<mailto:fdepaolis using middlebury.edu>> wrote:
This is what I get after the current failure, where neither R.app nor the call from the command line work.


fernandodepaolis using MacBook-Pro-2 ~ % ls -l `which R`

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  47 Jun  5 10:23 /usr/local/bin/R -> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R
....
If you open up the "Console" app you should have access to the system logs, which might have some useful hints about what is actually failing, or leading up to the failure.

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