I thought I was loading a ~300M binary (bigwig) file into another application, but the window changed to the R GUI without my realizing it and R tried to load the file. I’m on a Mac M1-based laptop with system 12.5.1 and 8G of ram, running R 4.2.1 (Intel version). According to ActivityMonitor, R grabs ~45G (!) of memory before the system warns me that it is out of application memory and I have to force quit R. I have since tried locating/moving/editing .Rprofile, .Rapp.history, or .RData files with no impact. Starting R from a Terminal session works fine but has no impact on the problem. I have tried restarting R, restarting the laptop, and re-installing R, all with no change; on restarting R, it just starts reloading the file it can’t handle (CtrlC and ESC don’t do anything). I have changed the directory name of the offending file, and the filename itself, without changing what happens upon starting R. I’ve also created a new .Rprofile that successfully executes but does not prevent the load problem unless the .Rprofile includes a quit() command.
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