I have a newly installed R (v. 4.0.2) on an all new MacBook Pro with OS Catalina (v. 10.15.4). R works perfectly smooth except for one thing: Many of my scripts (but not all - and consistently the same) will cause R to crash when I attempt to open them either by double-clicking them or by opening them from within R with File>Open Recent. I never had that problem before and I did not find answers to this problem in older posts or StackOverflow. The only way to open them is to open them in another text editor and copy-paste them into a new script within R. But when I then save that new script and try to reopen it, the same thing happens again. *Dr. Oliver Balmer* Project leader Tel. +41 (0)61 284 87 48 oliver.balmer at swisstph.ch *Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute* Socinstrasse 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland www.swisstph.ch
crash when opening existing scripts
2 messages · Oliver Balmer, Berend Hasselman
On 6 Jul 2020, at 23:38, Oliver Balmer <oliver.balmer at unibas.ch> wrote: I have a newly installed R (v. 4.0.2) on an all new MacBook Pro with OS Catalina (v. 10.15.4). R works perfectly smooth except for one thing: Many of my scripts (but not all - and consistently the same) will cause R to crash when I attempt to open them either by double-clicking them or by opening them from within R with File>Open Recent. I never had that problem before and I did not find answers to this problem in older posts or StackOverflow. The only way to open them is to open them in another text editor and copy-paste them into a new script within R. But when I then save that new script and try to reopen it, the same thing happens again.
This belongs on the R-SIG-Mac list (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/). See this thread: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-June/013575.html and the solution: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-July/013641.html Berend Hasselman