David.
On Nov 20, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Stropharia wrote:
>
> Thanks Duncan,
>
> I managed to get R to start through the terminal this way. Still no
> luck
> getting the R.app to start. Is it possible to directly access (and
> then
> trash or modify) the .RData and .RProfile files? I assume they would
> be
> recreated if I could then open the R.app. Having searched for them on
> spotlight and in the /user/library folder, I don't see them anywhere
> - are
> they always located in the same place on OS X?
>
> thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
> Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote:
>>
>> On 20/11/2009 12:33 AM, Stropharia wrote:
>>> Dear R users,
>>>
>>> I am running R 2.10.0 on OS X 10.5.8.
>>>
>>> I had been running 2.10 successfully for about a week (and have used
>>> previous R versions for 2+ years on the same computer) until 2
>>> days ago
>>> it
>>> failed to start up for me. Now when I try to start R, the
>>> application
>>> tries
>>> to initiate for several minutes then crashes. Looking at the
>>> activity
>>> monitor, my memory usage goes from having about 1.6Gb free (out of
>>> 2Gb)
>>> to
>>> <7Mb in the first 10-15 seconds of attempting to start the
>>> program. At
>>> this
>>> point I either have to force quit R (as everything starts to
>>> freeze up)
>>> or
>>> wait several minutes for it to crash.
>>>
>>> I have erased the application and reinstalled it 4 times now - with
>>> exactly
>>> the same result. I looked around in the Library and System folders
>>> to see
>>> if
>>> any other files needed to be removed, but couldn't find any. I
>>> have also
>>> restarted the computer and repaired permissions multiple times -
>>> and then
>>> reinstalled R, with no luck. The exact same thing happens if I
>>> start R64.
>>>
>>> I did not updated OS X or R, or install any other programs, just
>>> prior to
>>> this first happening and am at a loss to explain what's going on.
>>> I have
>>> copied the first part of one of the crash logs below. Does anyone
>>> have
>>> any
>>> ideas for to remedy this?
>>
>>
>> It sounds like one of your user-specific startup files is causing the
>> problem, e.g. .RData, or .Rprofile. Did you try starting R with
>> option
>> --vanilla? That will skip them.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> #---------------- Crash log ------------------------
>>> Process: R [231]
>>> Path: /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
>>> Identifier: org.R-project.R
>>> Version: R 2.10.0 GUI 1.30 Leopard build 32-bit (5511)
>>> Code Type: X86 (Native)
>>> Parent Process: launchd [101]
>>>
>>> Date/Time: 2009-11-18 23:15:45.570 -0500
>>> OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
>>> Report Version: 6
>>> Anonymous UUID: D86CDCBC-00FD-4AEE-AB50-2EFE0DAE9E1E
>>>
>>> Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
>>> Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000067ee2
>>> Crashed Thread: 0
>>>
>>> Thread 0 Crashed:
>>> 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0xffff07c7 __memcpy + 39
>>> (cpu_capabilities.h:246)
>>> 1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96a6a0b4
>>> __CFStringEncodeByteStream
>>> +
>>> 4052
>>> 2 com.apple.Foundation 0x94446eb7
>>> -[NSString(NSStringOtherEncodings)
>>> getBytes
>>> :maxLength:usedLength:encoding:options:range:remainingRange:] +
>>> 295
>>> 3 com.apple.Foundation 0x94446a1a
>>> _NSNewStringByAppendingStrings
>>> + 538
>>> 4 com.apple.Foundation 0x94446760 -[NSString
>>> stringByAppendingString:] + 192
>>> 5 org.R-project.R 0x00009ce8 -[RController
>>> doLoadHistory:] +
>>> 808
>>> 6 org.R-project.R 0x000076df -[RController
>>> awakeFromNib]
>>> +
>>> 2319
>>> 7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96ac07f5 -[NSSet
>>> makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 181
>>> 8 com.apple.AppKit 0x92efed8e -[NSIBObjectData
>>> nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1533
>>> 9 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ef4fba loadNib + 264
>>> 10 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ef491c +
>>> [NSBundle(NSNibLoading)
>>> _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 946
>>> 11 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ef455f +
>>> [NSBundle(NSNibLoading)
>>> loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 171
>>> 12 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ef449d +
>>> [NSBundle(NSNibLoading)
>>> loadNibNamed:owner:] + 391
>>> 13 org.R-project.R 0x00002538 main + 296
>>> 14 org.R-project.R 0x000023d6 start + 54
>>> #----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
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