Plotting tools taking forever (not working)

[geeq13]

I am running R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10) -- "One Push-Up" on Rstudio "Prairie Trillium" Release (8aaa5d47, 2022-03-17) for macOS. My machine is MacBook Air (M1, 2020).

Today my plotting tools such as plot() and ggplot() stopped working - it runs forever and no output is given. I have to terminate the R session to get out of it. I have tried re-installing Rstudio, R, as well as update all packages, resetting my PRAM, etc... but nothing works.

Help will be very much appreciated.

[pieterjanvc]

Hello,

Did this problem occur after installing a new version of R? Or was there any other change you made after which issues started?

Kind regards,
PJ

[geeq13]

It happened quite suddenly, I was running chunks of code in R markdown and it started to happen.

I tried reinstalling but still no progress.

[geeq13]

Here’s a screenshot:

[pieterjanvc]

Hi,

Have you tried in RStudio to run updates for all packages, and check if all of them will update with no errors (including dependencies )? Sometimes this might be the issue. Tools -> 'Check for package updates'

I know that some packages like Rcpp can cause plotting issues when not using the latest version.

Also if a package fails because of a dependency failure (you can get that from the error message), install the dependencies manually as well.

PJ

[geeq13]

Yes I did update all the packages including Rcpp, but still doesn’t work.

[andresrcs]

This is a long shot but it wouldn't heart to try reinstalling/updating XQuartz in your system and resetting RStudios state. I guess since you are using a native aarch64 version of R you also need to use an aarch64 version of XQuartz so check on that.

Resetting RStudio Desktop's State

[geeq13]

Thank you for the suggestion! I tried that but it didn't work still.

By the way I managed to solve my issue: I contacted Apple support and they recommended me to reboot in safe mode. It worked after that, and even after reboot normally. It could have been another app interfering with R. Rstudio also worked on a test user account I made on the same computer.