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R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

David Winsemius

Mon, Mar 2, 2009 9:22 AM

In order to do that, the OP may need to open a Terminal window,  
determine where the .Rhistory file resides, and issue the command  
'rm .Rhistory'. The Mac GUI hides a lot of the system innards  
including all the "." files.

David Winsemius


On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> Yes, remove  .Rhistory and possibly also .RData and your .Rprofile
>
> Kasper
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:29 , William Revelle wrote:
>
>> Mary,
>> A somewhat similar problem happened to me in January.
>> Following the advice of Byron Ellis , I removed the .Rhistory file
>>
>>
>> At 4:45 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>>> From the crash report it looks like perhaps your history file has  
>>> been corrupted. I'd delete it and try again
>>
>> At 5:43 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
>>> It's probably a file called .Rhistory in your home directory.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 9:11 AM -0700 3/2/09, 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much for your time.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Mary Meyer
>>> Statistics Department
>>> Colorado State University
>>>
>>> meyer at stat.colostate.edu
>>>
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Mary Meyer R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Steve Lianoglou R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 William Revelle R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Day, Roger S R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Kasper Daniel Hansen R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Mary Meyer R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Brian Ripley R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Mary Meyer R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 David Winsemius R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Osee Sanogo R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Kasper Daniel Hansen R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Steve Lianoglou R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Brian Ripley R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Steve Lianoglou R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2 Brian Ripley R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1 Mar 2