What do you mean by "open an existing R file"... did you try to load it with the source function or the MacOSX R App? If the latter you may be better off reading the archives of and/or asking in R-sig-mac...
On May 21, 2020 3:35:13 PM PDT, John Helly via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: >Aloha. > >Just installed 'Arbor day' and what was an occasional problem is now >preventing me from loading even a script I was routinely running the >day >before. > >Anyone have any idea what might be wrong now? I just get a beachball >and Force Quit tells me R is not responding. > >Thank you. >J. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.