Hi Brian, R1.9.0 fails with the message "Fatal error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE" and no prompt to send an error report to Microsoft.
R1.8.1 fails with the message "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience", included in a prompt to send an error report to Microsoft. For both versions, R fails to start at all. I'm running Windows XP Pro, and like David Scott I'm supposed to install the XP critical updates as soon as they come out, which I did last week. I suppose, given the other reports of this behaviour, the subject line should be "R fails after installing Windows XP updates". Cheers Brett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Brett Melbourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Joann Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE > Has this anything to do with `Invalid HOMEDRIVE', as given in the subject > line? R can only fail with one error message, so which is it, please? > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, David Scott wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brett Melbourne wrote: > > > > > That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to be intermittent. > > > After a reboot, it might (but might not) fix itself. My older versions of R > > > also no longer work. R1.8.1 fails with the windows message "R for Windows > > > GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry > > > for the inconvenience." > > > > > > This appears to have occured to me after installing the latest Microsoft > > > Windows critical updates. I have reinstalled R1.8.1 and R1.9.0 to no avail. > > > None of the other programs on my computer are affected, only R. > > > > > > Is anybody else experiencing this? > > > > > > > Yes. With 1.8.1 if the updates are installed R fails as you indicate. If > > the updates are taken off it works again. Bit of a problem here because > > the University IT Security runs checks on the updates and complains to > > users who don't have them installed. > > > > > > > Brett > > > Brett Melbourne, Postdoctoral Fellow > > > Biological Invasions IGERT www.cpb.ucdavis.edu/bioinv > > > Center for Population Biology, Storer Hall > > > University of California Davis CA 95616 > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > David Scott Department of Statistics, Tamaki Campus > > The University of Auckland, PB 92019 > > Auckland NEW ZEALAND > > Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86830 Fax: +64 9 373 7000 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Graduate Officer, Department of Statistics > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
