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Rstudio Won't Launch on Mac

Sarah Jenkins • • 2 min read
Rstudio Won't Launch on Mac

I installed R from CRAN and RStudio Desktop from (like anyone else would) for my MacBook Pro (running 12.0.1) and I can't launch RStudio. When I open the app, the icon spins for a bit and then says "R is taking longer to start than usual", with two buttons for either "Reload" or "Terminate R". If I click "Terminate R", I get the following message.

I installed RStudio version 2021.09.1+372 and R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01).

I've been told to run which R and which RStudio, doing so returns /usr/local/bin/R and RStudio not found.

I've also tried installing R and RStudio from Brew, which resulted in the same problem.

Thanks for the help!

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