Yes, it is a bug, but not in R. It is a bug in a Windows XP critical update: are you *sure* no new software has been installed behind your back?
The fix (which you can find several times in the list archives) is to add R_USER=c:/ (or better, the correct path to your home aka personal directory) to the shortcut you use to start R. There is a workaround in R-patched, usually available from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html but I think that has the wrong version at present since it is labelled R-2.0.0 patch build for Windows and contains rw2000dev.exe, not rw1090pat.exe. On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Alain Yamakana wrote: > Either something is wrong with my machine or there may be a bugg. I had run > R-1.8.1 two weeks ago. Since yesterday, I am getting this message:<<R for > Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are > sorry for the inconvenience.>> No new software has been installed since I > installed R-1.8.1. Tired to fail getting R-1.8.1 work, I decided to install > R-1.9.0 and got the following message <<Fatal Error. HOMEDRIVE>>. How to > solve either one of these two problems? -- 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
