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Serious problem with R on macOS

OS: Ventura 13.4 (22F66)
Downloaded R-4.3.0-x86_64.pkg from CRAN
Installation: Successful?everything works fine
Suggestion to move the installer to Trash: Declined (because I know I will need the installer again).
CRAN suggests reinstalling Xquartz, which I did a few times on the onset of the symptoms (I don?t do that anymore because there sems to be no point to it).
Use: I only use RStudio and everything works fine, until at a random time a few days later (or hours in a few instances), RStudio fails to ?find R?, which doesn?t run on its own or from the console.
Possible emerging conflicts: At the beginning, I thought this could be happening because other software were install afterward, but that is not the case.
Looked for alternatives: I couldn?t find any reference online, so I suspect this is quite specific to my machine and/or environment. About the ?environment?, I cannot think of anything, as no changes have been made, except for routine updates (which is unlikely, but not impossible to have undesirable effects).


Thank you



Fernando DePaolis, Ph.D.
Dean of Academic Operations & Integration
Associate Professor
Middlebury Institute of International Studies<http://www.middlebury.edu/institute> at Monterey
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From: peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 8:48 AM
To: DePaolis, Fernando <fdepaolis at middlebury.edu>
Cc: Calboli Federico (LUKE) <federico.calboli at luke.fi>, r-sig-mac at r-project.org <r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Serious problem with R on macOS
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OK, so

- OS version?
- What do you do to install?
- What happens when you do it?

e.g.:

- Monterey 12.6.5
- Downloaded R-4.3.0-x86_64.pkg from CRAN
- As user with admin privilege, open from Downloads folder and follow instructions
- "The installation was succesful"
- Close, move to bin.

I gather that on newer OS, you may need to move the installer out of Downloads first.


-pd
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