RStudio crashing on start-up

RStudio IDE
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Error Information:

Description of issue - Whenever opening RStudio, the error message "R Session Aborted. R encountered a fatal error. The session was terminated." appears. On clicking "Start New Session", the same error occurs. R in the terminal and GUI still work.

It may also be relevant that I was previously using Microsoft R Open, however had issues with it and was attempting to switch back to CRAN R; my "Current" R version in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/ now points back to the CRAN version:

104561mopdt:Versions keason$ ls -lhrt
total 8
drwxrwxr-x  6 root       admin   204B 15 Jan  2016 3.2
drwxrwxr-x  3 root       admin   102B 10 Jun  2016 3.1
drwxrwxr-x  6 root       admin   204B  8 Mar  2017 3.3
drwxrwxr-x  7 root       admin   238B  4 Feb 17:31 3.5.1-MRO
drwxrwxr-x  6 root       admin   204B 26 Feb 18:52 3.5
drwxrwxr-x  3 root       admin   102B 26 Feb 18:52 3.4
lrwxr-xr-x  1 adminkeason  admin     4B 27 Feb 13:19 Current -> 3.5/

CRAN 3.5.2 is the version being accessed by terminal/GUI:

> R.version
               _                           
platform       x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0   
arch           x86_64                      
os             darwin15.6.0                
system         x86_64, darwin15.6.0        
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          5.2                         
year           2018                        
month          12                          
day            20                          
svn rev        75870                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
nickname       Eggshell Igloo

Attempted steps taken to fix -

  • Uninstalling and reinstalling RStudio
  • Updating all packages
  • Removing startup files, .RData, .Rprofile etc. from home directory
  • Removing ~/.rstudio-desktop

System Information:

From RStudio Desktop Will Not Start on support.rstudio.com

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I have found that RStudio will still open successfully on another (admin) user account. This suggested to me that there might be some environment variable that is causing this error. I unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, CPATH, CUDA_HOMES and CUDA_HOME9 which were not set for the user that RStudio will start as. However this has not resolved the issue.

Any help would be amazing.

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I have installed R version 3.4.4 from this page: https://r.research.att.com/ as I couldn't find 3.4 for Mac on r-project.org. RStudio now opens successfully.

I also tried version 3.5.3 from that page but this still caused RStudio to crash.

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Are things any better with the preview release?

5

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately not. With both 3.4.4 and 3.5.2 the preview release opens an RStudio window but it is blank with no content inside it. I can see the menus but they are unresponsive.

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