R does not start on my MacBook Pro3,1

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

It is considered extremely bad behavior to report something like  
this as bug (see recent post on R-devel).

Yes it is a nuisance, but thankfully we seem to have solved the  
problem in the meantiime.

The one thing I at least have learnt is that a note somewhere about  
how to deal with this problem would be appropriate: perhaps in one  
of the FAQs.

Brian Ripley

Kasper

On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:50 , Mary Meyer wrote:

Thank you, that worked!  It's now again running happily.
Best,
Mary
On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:45 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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