On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Mary Meyer wrote:

Yes, I would like to know what I *ought* to have done.

Ask on one list. For beginners, only send a bug report if encouraged to do so by someome more experienced. Unless you are sure it is not Mac-specific (or aboute Bioconductor), ask on R-sig-mac, not least because Mac-specific questions on R-help will get lost and those on R-devel might.

[Not just for Mary:]

Please only send bug reports for things you are *sure* are bugs: because > 90% of bug reports are erroneous and they do take up too much of R-core's time. But the ones that get me angry are the serial offenders.

Also, please be patient: the experts are in short supply: Simon Urbanek is currently travelling, I will be next month ....

Brian Ripley


Thanks again,
Mary

On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

It is considered extremely bad behavior to report something like this as bug (see recent post on R-devel).

Yes it is a nuisance, but thankfully we seem to have solved the problem in the meantiime.

The one thing I at least have learnt is that a note somewhere about how to deal with this problem would be appropriate: perhaps in one of the FAQs.

Brian Ripley


Kasper

On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:50 , Mary Meyer wrote:

Thank you, that worked!  It's now again running happily.
Best,
Mary
On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
Yes, remove  .Rhistory and possibly also .RData and your .Rprofile
Kasper
On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:29 , William Revelle wrote:
Mary,
A somewhat similar problem happened to me in January.
Following the advice of Byron Ellis , I removed the .Rhistory file
At 4:45 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
From the crash report it looks like perhaps your history file has been corrupted. I'd delete it and try again
At 5:43 PM -0800 1/1/09, Byron Ellis wrote:
It's probably a file called .Rhistory in your home directory.
Bill
At 9:11 AM -0700 3/2/09, Mary Meyer wrote:
Help! I was running R code and started getting error messages that would not stop repeating. I force-quit R, but when I attempted to run it again, it would not start (Icon kept bouncing until I force-quit again). I restarted the computer, then I reinstalled R, but that did not fix the problem. I deleted everything I could find related to R, and installed again. Each time I install I get a "successful" message, but it does not start. I don't know what to try next.
I have the latest versions of the operating system.
Thanks very much for your time.
Sincerely,
Mary Meyer
Statistics Department
Colorado State University
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