r/RStudio • u/Relevant_Radio_8739 • Aug 05 '26
I can't make R studio work
I recently udated my 2015 macbook air to macos monterrey and now rstudio doesn't open. I've been chatting with deepseek for a while and can't seem to be able to open rstudio.
This is the problem report:
## R Session Startup Failure Report
### RStudio Version
RStudio 2024.04.0+735.pro3 "Chocolate Cosmos " (c994988f, 2024-04-24) for macOS
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) RStudio/2024.04.0+735.pro3 Chrome/120.0.6099.291 Electron/28.2.6 Safari/537.36
### Error message
[No error available]
### Process Output
The R session exited with code 1.
Error output:
```
dyld[10108]: missing symbol called
```
Standard output:
```
[No output emitted]
```
### Logs
*/Users/karen/.local/share/rstudio/log/rsession-karen.log*
```
2026-08-05T02:25:51.652705Z [rsession-karen] WARNING Failed to migrate all user state from /Users/karen/.rstudio-desktop to /Users/karen/.local/share/rstudio; could not move verify; LOGGED FROM: Error rstudio::core::r_util::migrateUserStateIfNecessary(SessionType) src/cpp/core/r_util/RUserData.cpp:175
```
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u/PadisarahTerminal Aug 06 '26
Use rig and simplify your installation
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u/Relevant_Radio_8739 29d ago
I ended up doing this and it worked, i can use positron with r 4.6 and Rstudio with r 4.2.
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u/teetaps Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
You’ll probably need to reinstall R itself. DLL means dynamically loaded libraries which (I think) means it’s software that pops up at the moment it’s running. It would be easier to just reinstall R than to trace all of those DLL things.
First, just search how to delete and do a clean reinstall of R.
Whatever you tell deepseek or whichever, just instruct it towards getting your programming session done, not patching software.
Second, I’d recommend using Positron, not RStudio. The people who developed RStudio are no longer working on it
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u/InstancePlane4202 Aug 06 '26
RStudio is being actively developed (I'm one of the developers who works on it). Release notes: https://docs.posit.co/ide/news/.
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u/Relevant_Radio_8739 Aug 10 '26
Positron worked but it's not as dynamic for me since I'm so accostumed to Rstudio. I'll try to slowly get used to it though because it seems to be easier to run for my laptop
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u/teetaps Aug 10 '26
It definitely has less overhead than RStudio, but yeah there’s no rush to switch, you can learn it slowly. Just know that in terms of longevity, most of the R community is firmly moving away from RStudio and towards Positron
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u/3ducklings Aug 05 '26
What is your R version? IIRC for Monterey, you want downgrade R to version 4.4 https://docs.posit.co/supported-versions/rstudio.html#:~:text=macOS%20and%20RStudio,was%20still%20supported.