Plots crash while exporting as .svg

Greetings! RStudio plots crash and I lose all of the generated plots when I try to save it as .svg. The .svg plot doesn't get generated either. I am using RStudio Version 1.1.456 on macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 (4.2GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB memory). Kindly help as I need the plots in .svg format.
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Amruta

Could you please turn this into a self-contained reprex (short for reproducible example)? It will help us help you if we can be sure we're all working with/looking at the same stuff.

install.packages("reprex")

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Hi,

After you run reprex, the code and output will be on your clipboard (or in a markdown file, if you chose to run it as such). Can you please paste the output here as opposed to a screenshot? That way others can try to help you troubleshoot without having to read and type from a picture.

Thanks

n.b. you don't need to reinstall the packages inside of the reprex!

Thanks Mara - I actually tried to post the .md files, the .r script as well as the html but that did not work. I am not allowed to upload the files as i am a new user.
Amruta

install.packages(c("tidyverse","reprex","ggplot2"))
#> Installing packages into '/Users/arphatak/Library/R/3.5/library'
#> (as 'lib' is unspecified)
#> 
#> The downloaded binary packages are in
#>  /var/folders/p5/vpnvn_w93xj0pfnhcf7mnl58rqftqf/T//RtmpXBVFuS/downloaded_packages
library(tidyverse)
library(reprex)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ,hwy, colour = class)) + geom_point()

svg(filename = "100218_reprex", width = 6, height = 6, pointsize = 2)
#> Warning in svg(filename = "100218_reprex", width = 6, height = 6, pointsize = 2): unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/grDevices/libs//cairo.so':
#>   dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/grDevices/libs//cairo.so, 6): Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libcairo.2.dylib
#>   Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/grDevices/libs//cairo.so
#>   Reason: image not found
#> Warning in svg(filename = "100218_reprex", width = 6, height = 6, pointsize
#> = 2): failed to load cairo DLL
capabilities("cairo")
#> cairo 
#>  TRUE
sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
#> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
#> Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
#> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> other attached packages:
#>  [1] reprex_0.2.1    forcats_0.3.0   stringr_1.3.1   dplyr_0.7.6    
#>  [5] purrr_0.2.5     readr_1.1.1     tidyr_0.8.1     tibble_1.4.2   
#>  [9] ggplot2_3.0.0   tidyverse_1.2.1
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.19     cellranger_1.1.0 pillar_1.3.0     compiler_3.5.1  
#>  [5] plyr_1.8.4       bindr_0.1.1      tools_3.5.1      digest_0.6.17   
#>  [9] lubridate_1.7.4  jsonlite_1.5     evaluate_0.11    nlme_3.1-137    
#> [13] gtable_0.2.0     lattice_0.20-35  pkgconfig_2.0.2  rlang_0.2.2     
#> [17] cli_1.0.1        yaml_2.2.0       haven_1.1.2      bindrcpp_0.2.2  
#> [21] withr_2.1.2      xml2_1.2.0       httr_1.3.1       knitr_1.20      
#> [25] fs_1.2.6         hms_0.4.2        rprojroot_1.3-2  grid_3.5.1      
#> [29] tidyselect_0.2.4 glue_1.3.0       R6_2.2.2         readxl_1.1.0    
#> [33] rmarkdown_1.10   modelr_0.1.2     magrittr_1.5     backports_1.1.2 
#> [37] scales_1.0.0     htmltools_0.3.6  rvest_0.3.2      assertthat_0.2.0
#> [41] colorspace_1.3-2 labeling_0.3     stringi_1.2.4    lazyeval_0.2.1  
#> [45] munsell_0.5.0    broom_0.5.0      crayon_1.3.4
reprex::reprex(input = "100218_RStudio_svg-help.R", outfile = "100218_RStudio_svg-help.md")

Created on 2018-10-02 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)

I think this SO thread might help.