R 4.1 for my Mac M1 crashing on installing packages

Renato,

I'm glad you have work-around, but I'd still like to get to the core of
the issue, we don't want R to crash ;).
Can you, please, check your Console log to see if there is a trace of the
crash and if so, send it to me?
Also are you using R in the Terminal or the R.app GUI?

Thanks,
Simon

On 20/05/2021, at 12:07 AM, Renato Morais <renatomoraisaraujo at gmail.com>

wrote:

Thanks Jeroen, fixing the repo connected me with CRAN (it was defaulted

to

'@CRAN@' I think)!

Cheers,
Renato

On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:00, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen at berkeley.edu> wrote:

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:34 AM Renato Morais
<renatomoraisaraujo at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new here, so please forgive my clumsy error reporting.

I have just downloaded *R-4.1-branch.pkg* for my Mac M1, as I wanted to
finally enjoy a native normal-speed R (for some reason running v 4.0.5

on

Rosetta was extremely slow on my machine). I also installed the latest
XQuartz, as indicated (v 2.8.1).

Sad story is, when I try a simple install.packages command, it first
appears to ignore me, after returning 'Please select a CRAN mirror for

use

in this session'. if I insist, it crashes. No useful error messages.

Trying

via the Package Installer tab didn't work either. It doesn't find any
packages, indeed it crashes if I ask it to load the list.

This indeed sounds like an xQuartz issue, failing to popup the mirror
selection menu. Does everything work if you manually set your CRAN
mirror first, e.g:

 options(repos=c(CRAN="https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Alternatively you can disable the popup menus all-together using:

 options(menu.graphics=FALSE)

Which should probably be the default.

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