R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

Some other things that might be relevant

the saved workspace ~/.Rdata
the saved history ~/.Rhistory
any personal library.

One piece of advice that often works is to start R with --vanilla  
(e.g. from a terminal 'R --vanilla'): if that works it indicates a  
problem in one of the startup files and with the help of ?Startup  
you can narrow the search down.

I hope that helps you here.

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

Hi Mary,

On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Mary Meyer wrote:

Help!   I was running R code and started getting error messages  
that would not stop repeating.  I force-quit R, but when I  
attempted to run it again, it would not start (Icon kept bouncing  
until I force-quit again).  I restarted the computer, then I  
reinstalled R, but that did not fix the problem.  I deleted  
everything I could find related to R, and installed again.  Each  
time I install I get a "successful" message, but it does not  
start.  I don't know what to try next.
I have the latest versions of the operating system.

Can you be a bit more specific about the error messages you were  
getting? (I guess if you can't even start R, it's not likely, but  
maybe you remember something about what the error was saying that  
kept repeating?)

Also, I'm not sure what version 3,1 means in your MBP description,  
which MBP are you runnning? (Though, I doubt it's a problem with  
the type of computer)

In the meantime:

* I think the only thing you need to delete in order to clean R out  
of your system is:

* the /Library/Frameworks/R.framework directory
* /Applications/R.app

Is that what you cleaned?

* After cleaning and re-install (or now, even), can you run R from  
the terminal? Just open up Terminal.app and type "R" (no quotes).

-steve

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