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
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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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