rJava load error in RStudio/R after “upgrading” to OSX Yosemite
I had the same problem and went through the same steps as you. The final step to allow starting RStudio through Finder/Spotlight was to link libjvm.dylib to /usr/local/lib: sudo ln -f -s $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib /usr/local/lib -f flag is added to force overwriting existing file/link