Renato,
I'm glad you have work-around, but I'd still like to get to the core of the issue, we don't want R to crash ;). Can you, please, check your Console log to see if there is a trace of the crash and if so, send it to me? Also are you using R in the Terminal or the R.app GUI? Thanks, Simon > On 20/05/2021, at 12:07 AM, Renato Morais <renatomoraisara...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
