R Studio crashing with dplyr joins?

[bmurphy2]

R Studio (latest version) just started crashing on me with dplyr joins. My Mac recently updated, which I suspect is the problem, as I’ve never had this issue before. This is where I'm running into the problem:

result <- inner_join(dataframe1, dataframe2, by = "common field", copy = FALSE)

Error message after the crash:
"R Session Aborted. R encountered a fatal error. The session was terminated."

Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks

[mara]

Since there are preview versions, and daily builds of RStudio, could you let us know your exact version? Also, does this happen for you in both R and RStudio, or just in RStudio (see FAQ below for disambiguation).

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

Does this happen for literally any data and any join in dplyr? For example, what happens if you run:

library(dplyr)
example("inner_join")

If you can run it successfully in vanilla R, could you please turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)? It will help us help you if we can be sure we're all working with/looking at the same stuff.

install.packages("reprex")

If you've never heard of a reprex before, you might want to start by reading the tidyverse.org help page. The reprex dos and don'ts are also useful.

What to do if you run into clipboard problems

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reprex::reprex(input = "fruits_stringdist.R", outfile = "fruits_stringdist.md")

For pointers specific to the community site, check out the reprex FAQ.

[bmurphy2]

Thanks, Mara!

It's Rstudio version 1.1.463

I just uninstalled Rstudio, reinstalled it and restarted my computer and that seemed to fix it!

[mara]

Yay! The good old turning it on and off (or deleting it and reinstalling) trick works its magic again!