R help - Sep 2020 - open file on R GUI results in spinning wheel and frozen R - Mac OS

Hello,

I?ve been using R-studio for a while and today I needed to try something
directly on the R-GUI.

But when I try to open any *.R file I get a spinning wheel and R freezes. I can
only shut it down with ?force quit?.

I have deleted and re-installed R three times, each time trying to run a more
thorough uninstall, but the problem persists.

I am using Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 and the latest version of R ->  R 4.0.2
GUI 1.72 Catalina build (7847)

Strangely, as this problem was happening on the R GUI, I was still able to open
R scripts on RStudio. But now I uninstalled RStudio as well, in the latest
attempt to start from scratch.

Is this problem familiar to anyone?

Thanks for any help,

Gon?alo

You might do better on r-sig-mac  for this.

Cheers,
Bert


Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:24 AM Gon?alo Ferraz <gferraz29 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I?ve been using R-studio for a while and today I needed to try something
> directly on the R-GUI.
>
> But when I try to open any *.R file I get a spinning wheel and R freezes.
> I can only shut it down with ?force quit?.
>
> I have deleted and re-installed R three times, each time trying to run a
> more thorough uninstall, but the problem persists.
>
> I am using Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 and the latest version of R ->  R
4.0.2
> GUI 1.72 Catalina build (7847)
>
> Strangely, as this problem was happening on the R GUI, I was still able to
> open R scripts on RStudio. But now I uninstalled RStudio as well, in the
> latest attempt to start from scratch.
>
> Is this problem familiar to anyone?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Gon?alo
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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> On 21 Sep 2020, at 20:24, Gon?alo Ferraz <gferraz29 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I?ve been using R-studio for a while and today I needed to try something
directly on the R-GUI.
> 
> But when I try to open any *.R file I get a spinning wheel and R freezes. I
can only shut it down with ?force quit?.
> 
> I have deleted and re-installed R three times, each time trying to run a
more thorough uninstall, but the problem persists.
> 
> I am using Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 and the latest version of R ->  R
4.0.2 GUI 1.72 Catalina build (7847)
> 
> Strangely, as this problem was happening on the R GUI, I was still able to
open R scripts on RStudio. But now I uninstalled RStudio as well, in the latest
attempt to start from scratch.
> 
> Is this problem familiar to anyone?
> 
See this thread on the R-SIG-Mac list:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-June/013575.html
and her for a solution (sequel of above):
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-July/013641.html

Go to https://mac.r-project.org/ and get the latest revision of the R GUI which
is noe
https://mac.r-project.org/high-sierra/R-4.0-branch/R-GUI-7884-4.0-high-sierra-Release.dmg

I have revision 7849; if the above does not work I can mail you the dmg of
revision 7849.

Berend


> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Gon?alo
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

...or try R-patched, which I'm told has the newer GUI.

-pd
> On 21 Sep 2020, at 21:43 , Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 21 Sep 2020, at 20:24, Gon?alo Ferraz <gferraz29 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I?ve been using R-studio for a while and today I needed to try
something directly on the R-GUI.
>> 
>> But when I try to open any *.R file I get a spinning wheel and R
freezes. I can only shut it down with ?force quit?.
>> 
>> I have deleted and re-installed R three times, each time trying to run
a more thorough uninstall, but the problem persists.
>> 
>> I am using Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 and the latest version of R ->  R
4.0.2 GUI 1.72 Catalina build (7847)
>> 
>> Strangely, as this problem was happening on the R GUI, I was still able
to open R scripts on RStudio. But now I uninstalled RStudio as well, in the
latest attempt to start from scratch.
>> 
>> Is this problem familiar to anyone?
>> 
> 
> See this thread on the R-SIG-Mac list:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-June/013575.html
> and her for a solution (sequel of above):
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2020-July/013641.html
> 
> Go to https://mac.r-project.org/ and get the latest revision of the R GUI
which is noe
https://mac.r-project.org/high-sierra/R-4.0-branch/R-GUI-7884-4.0-high-sierra-Release.dmg
> 
> I have revision 7849; if the above does not work I can mail you the dmg of
revision 7849.
> 
> Berend
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks for any help,
>> 
>> Gon?alo
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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