Error reading R script (),system error 2 when trying to run R Studio on Mac

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I installed R Studio desktop in my MacBook air running on Big Sur. Unfortunately, it cannot run due to the error below:

Error reading R script (),system error 2 (No such file or directory); Unable to find libR.dylib in expected locationswithin R Home directory /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources

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4 Answers

Running brew install R solves the problem for me.

user_111336020

A similar question was asked on the R Studio community.

  • You need to first download base R:

    • Choose the latest version from here, under the Latest release header. For example, R-4.1.0.pkg.

  • Then download R Studio for MacOS from here.

user_60458000

You have probably installed Rstudio before installing R. What you can do is to first install R using brew install R and then reinstalling Rstudio using brew reinstall rstudio.

user_113848870

To add to all above info, with recent releases of MacOS we will have to install XQuartz before installing R. After these installations, proceed with RStudio installation.

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