Another possible culprit is ~/.Rprofile.
Once this was the source of my problem.
A tactic to help isolate the problem is to run
R --vanilla
from the terminal. Then you can paste in lines from .Rprofile
one at a time, until you encounter the trouble.
Good luck.
Roger Day
University of Pittsburgh Departments of Biomedical Informatics and
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On Jun 22, 2010, at 9:14 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Julie Falcon wrote:
>
>> Dear "R team",
>>
>> I am a regular user of R as a social scientist, and since last
>> friday for the first time I've been facing serious problems using R
>> on a Mac computer.
>>
>> I couldn't launch anymore R, it was cashing before it could open.
>> I've searched on the internet to find solutions to my problem. In
>> the first instance, it was useful, I realised that the file
>> "history.txt" was the cause of the crash
>> (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#R_002eapp-GUI-crashes-on-startup_0021
>>
>> ).
>> So, I removed it and R worked again until... this morning.
>>
>> I am facing the same problem again, although I can't identify
>> anymore the reason of the crash. This is not caused by "history.txt"
>> file, nor by "workspace.rdata". I've reinstalled several times the R
>> application (the lastest one, ie. 2.11.1 as well as an older version
>> 2.8.1) but this doesn't change anything.
>>
>> I don't know what to do, therefore I email you to ask you if you
>> could help me.
>>
>> I've attached a "R crash report" that may help you, but it was
>> generated by my computer, not by R (I couldn't find a R crash.log).
>
> Neither "history.txt" nor "workspace.rdata" are typical sites of
> corrupted workspaces. The default workspace is a "dot file", i.e. one
> whose name begins with a <dot> (= "."), named ".Rdata". These files
> are not visible in the Finder unless you change the behavior to show
> them. There are many sets of instructions for doing this that will
> come up on a Google search. The other method would be to open a
> Terminal window and:
>
> rm ~/.Rdata
>
> I do not think that corrupted history files are quite so common a
> cause, but getting rid of the default history file could be done in a
> Terminal session with:
>
> rm ~/.Rhistory
>
> --
> David.
>
>>
>> I hope this can help you.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Julie Falcon
>> Université de Lausanne
>>
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