[R] MAC R crashes

[David Winsemius]

The typical reason for a crash on startup is a corrupted (or version  
mismatched) .RData file.

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#R_002eapp-GUI-crashes-on-startup_0021

-- 
David.


On Jan 22, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Peter Rossi wrote:

> Dear R-Help Group:
>
> R will not start on my imac running 10.6.2.  I installed both  
> R2.10.1 and
> 2.10.0 from pkg. It crashed on both. I tried both the R and R64 apps  
> and
> both versions 2.10.1 and 2.10.0.  I googled and found nothing on this.
>
> Below is part of report:
>
> Process:         R [767]
> Path:            /Applications/R64.app/Contents/MacOS/R
> Identifier:      org.R-project.R
> Version:         R 2.10.0 GUI 1.30 Leopard build 64-bit (5511)
> Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
> Parent Process:  launchd [182]
>
> Date/Time:       2010-01-22 15:22:28.306 -0800
> OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C2234)
> Report Version:  6
>
> Interval Since Last Report:          868605 sec
> Crashes Since Last Report:           12
> Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
> Anonymous UUID:                       
> 2711C8BB-9B34-4F6D-98AF-8753700C7B8F
>
> Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
> Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
> Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
>
> Application Specific Information:
> abort() called
> *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception  
> 'NSInvalidArgumentException',
> reason: '-[NSApplication _setup:]: unrecognized selector sent to  
> instance
> 0x1006088b0'
>
>
> If I delete my Rprofile, R will sometimes run but hangs and goes
> non-responsive when I type only one letter of a command.
>
> cat .Rprofile
> # Example of .Rprofile
>     .First <- function() {
>        library(bayesm)
>          library(tcltk)
>        cat(" tcltk,bayesm loaded \n\n")
>    }
>       source("my_R_functions.R")
>      cat(" custom functions loaded \n")
>     .Last <- function()  cat("\n   Goodbye!\n\n")
>
>
> I have fully updated by mac os.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Peter Rossi
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT