Thanks Jeroen, fixing the repo connected me with CRAN (it was defaulted to '@CRAN@' I think)!
Cheers, Renato On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:00, Jeroen Ooms <jer...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:34 AM Renato Morais > <renatomoraisara...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new here, so please forgive my clumsy error reporting. > > > > I have just downloaded *R-4.1-branch.pkg* for my Mac M1, as I wanted to > > finally enjoy a native normal-speed R (for some reason running v 4.0.5 on > > Rosetta was extremely slow on my machine). I also installed the latest > > XQuartz, as indicated (v 2.8.1). > > > > Sad story is, when I try a simple install.packages command, it first > > appears to ignore me, after returning 'Please select a CRAN mirror for > use > > in this session'. if I insist, it crashes. No useful error messages. > Trying > > via the Package Installer tab didn't work either. It doesn't find any > > packages, indeed it crashes if I ask it to load the list. > > This indeed sounds like an xQuartz issue, failing to popup the mirror > selection menu. Does everything work if you manually set your CRAN > mirror first, e.g: > > options(repos=c(CRAN="https://cloud.r-project.org";)) > > Alternatively you can disable the popup menus all-together using: > > options(menu.graphics=FALSE) > > Which should probably be the default. > -- *Renato Morais | **ARC Postdoctoral Research Associate* Research Hub for Coral Reef Ecosystem Functions College of Science and Engineering ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies James Cook University Townsville, Queensland, Australia https://www.reeffunctionhub.org http://thebellwoodreeffishlab.com -- [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
