R 4.1 for my Mac M1 crashing on installing packages
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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