Andrew, this sounds like a bug in one of your input managers - it’s unlikely coming from R - see R for Mac FAQ 10.4 about it. You may want to remove that IM or durable stderr forwarding:
http://r.research.att.com/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#I-see-spurious-error-messages-when-starting-R_0021 Cheers, Simon > On Mar 19, 2018, at 4:46 AM, Andrew Beckett <andr...@cadence.com> wrote: > > David, > > Since I've never used R on this machine before, it seemed unlikely that this > would help - but I checked (there's no .Rdata) > > [mac-andrewb:~] andrewb% more .Rapp.history > 1+2 > [mac-andrewb:~] andrewb% more .Rhistory > [mac-andrewb:~] andrewb% ls -l .R* > -rw-r--r-- 1 andrewb GLOBAL\Domain Users 4 Mar 18 12:13 .Rapp.history > -rw------- 1 andrewb GLOBAL\Domain Users 0 Feb 27 10:26 .Rhistory > [mac-andrewb:~] andrewb% rm .Rapp.history .Rhistory > > I then re-ran R, and see exactly the same problem. > > Regards. > > Andrew. > > On Mar 18, 2018, at 9:05 PM, David Winsemius > <dwinsem...@comcast.net<mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net>> wrote: > > EXTERNAL MAIL > > > > On Mar 18, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Gero, Eric (GE Digital) > <eric.g...@ge.com<mailto:eric.g...@ge.com>> wrote: > > I have the exact same problem. It works fine on my Mac at home, but scrolls > the same error message on my MacBook Pro from work. RStudio does work fine > though. > > Have you tried deleting /Users/andrewb/.Rapp.history as well as > /Users/andrewb/.Rdata? > > -- > David. > > Thank you, > Eric > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 18, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Andrew Beckett > <andr...@cadence.com<mailto:andr...@cadence.com>> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I've been using R on my home MacBook Air for the last 3 years, but recently > installed on my work MacBook Pro. Both with 3.4.3 and 3.4.4 (version in > subject line) I get a continuous stream of messages (in red) in the R console > when I start R: > > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.151 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.151 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.152 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.153 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.154 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.154 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.186 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.186 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.187 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.188 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.222 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.222 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.255 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.255 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.288 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.288 R[23446:1805525] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.328 R[23446:1805525] action _forceClickMonitorDidChange: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.442 R[23446:1805525] action _forceClickMonitorDidChange: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.442 R[23446:1805525] action _forceClickMonitorDidChange: > 2018-03-18 11:57:25.442 R[23446:1805525] action _forceClickMonitorDidChange: > > Any idea what is causing this or how to fix it? I've searched with Google and > also using the FAQ, plus the GitHub issues, and not found anything. It makes > R unusable because any output I produce from any R commands just gets lost > amongst the continuous stream of red messages. There's no clue at the top of > the console - it just looks like this: > > R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On" > Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > > Natural language support but running in an English locale > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors. > Type 'contributors()' for more information and > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. > Type 'q()' to quit R. > > [R.app GUI 1.70 (7507) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0] > > [History restored from /Users/andrewb/.Rapp.history] > > 2018-03-18 12:10:08.485 R[26425:1835450] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 12:10:08.485 R[26425:1835450] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 12:10:08.512 R[26425:1835450] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 12:10:08.512 R[26425:1835450] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 12:10:08.512 R[26425:1835450] action changeColor: > 2018-03-18 12:10:08.512 R[26425:1835450] action changeColor: > > Regards, > > Andrew. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org<mailto:R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_r-2Dsig-2Dmac&d=DwIFAg&c=aUq983L2pue2FqKFoP6PGHMJQyoJ7kl3s3GZ-_haXqY&r=oQ6dxz5_MmND7omQRdV7uWFJSHk8m8M_vn27E5tBpJ8&m=uOR4NyuXGwk_x2ykFDXoD4bwC8Qu2AtOdDh-b0ddDqI&s=Ht-24MMYyCtIL71OkUtjRzf14sAraAr9tpfpI7uZNyg&e= > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org<mailto:R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_r-2Dsig-2Dmac&d=DwIFAg&c=aUq983L2pue2FqKFoP6PGHMJQyoJ7kl3s3GZ-_haXqY&r=oQ6dxz5_MmND7omQRdV7uWFJSHk8m8M_vn27E5tBpJ8&m=uOR4NyuXGwk_x2ykFDXoD4bwC8Qu2AtOdDh-b0ddDqI&s=Ht-24MMYyCtIL71OkUtjRzf14sAraAr9tpfpI7uZNyg&e= > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' > -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac