[R-SIG-Mac] Updating packages from RStudio

[Duncan Murdoch]

I've never seen a failure in those circumstances.

You should post full details of the next failure:  what you did, what 
versions of R and RStudio you were using, what went wrong.

There's a good chance this is purely an RStudio bug, in which case it 
would be off-topic here, so if you can reproduce the problem using 
R.app, that would be important.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2026-02-03 4:37 p.m., Manuel Spínola wrote:
> When I try to update packages from RStudio using the menu on macOS, some
> packages fail to install.
> 
> I can fix the issue by reinstalling them manually from source, for example:
> 
> install.packages("car", type = "source")
> I am wondering whether this is a known macOS/RStudio issue (e.g., related
> to binary vs source packages), and whether there is a recommended
> workaround or setting.
> 
> R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31) -- "[Not] Part in a Rumble"
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
> 
> Manuel
>