R freezes in Mac OS X Yosemite

r macos freeze
Javad Sadeqzadeh picture Javad Sadeqzadeh · Jan 26, 2015 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I encountered this problem and there was no clear explanation about how to work around this bug.

The latest version of R (v. 3.1.2) for OS X Mavericks freezes in Yosemite whenever I try to save a file which is written using R's internal editor. It also freezes when you try to source a function.

Edit: This was supposed to be a self-answered question, but I found a better answer, so I marked that as the answer.

Answer

Carl Witthoft picture Carl Witthoft · Jan 26, 2015

I have run into the same problem. I haven't tried Metallica's answer but found the problem has 95% disappeared after installing the latest "patch" version of R , as found at att.com .

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