Are there any entries in Console.app that might help triage? Have you tried creating a new user on your Mac and seeing if that account has issues performing the same tasks your user account is having?
Having said that, I just grabbed "Mac OS X GUI rev. 7843 for R 4.0.x" from mac.r-project.org (I never use R.app nor do I keep it installed unless testing something) and am running R 4.0.1 on latest Catalina beta — 10.15.6 Beta (19G36e) — and it crashes every time I try to open a .R file (crashlog https://paste.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/9899f3a7f3c1724cc952b935c3fc39a47cac88ac) > On Jun 7, 2020, at 16:22, Carl Witthoft <c...@witthoft.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > 2 weeks ago I installed R 4.0 on my new Catalina machine. Things seemed to be > working fine. > Today I installed R 4.01, and now I can't open any FILE.r - no matter what > way I try, i.e. double-click the file, drag/drop, or open from the R GUI > menu, R hangs with the beachball. > I tried giving R full disk access and other privileges via Security settings; > no help. > > So I deleted R 4.01 and reinstalled R 4.0, and dang if I no longer can open > files any more! I've tried all the suggestions in the previous thread in > this mailing group; no help. > > What else can I do, or delete, or uninstall, to at least get back to where I > was? Right now I'm basically DIW. > -- > Carl Witthoft > c...@witthoft.com > resume: https://app.box.com/file/498153801347 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
