Hi Gavin
Thanks for helping. > Does R close properly if you invoke R with the --vanilla flag? It sure does. So, deleting .RData from my workspace seems to fix it more neatly. But, of course, the problem come backs whenever I use R.utils. (Unless I remember not to save my workspace). A good improvement though. Thanks. John --- John Seers Institute of Food Research Norwich Research Park Colney Norwich NR4 7UA tel +44 (0)1603 251497 fax +44 (0)1603 507723 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-disclaimer at http://www.ifr.ac.uk/edisclaimer/ Web sites: www.ifr.ac.uk www.foodandhealthnetwork.com -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 November 2006 12:46 To: john seers (IFR) Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Closing R fails On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 12:18 +0000, john seers (IFR) wrote: > Hello All > > I cannot close R easily: > > > > > q() > Error in .Last() : could not find function "finalizeSession" > > > > This seems to have started after I used the R.utils package. If I load > the R.utils package I can close R successfully. But I do not want to > have to do this every time I run R. John, Does R close properly if you invoke R with the --vanilla flag? I forget the best way to do this in Windows, but editing the shortcut is one way. Right click the R shortcut, find the Target, and add --vanilla to the end of it. You might need to enclose the whole path and command in " ", e.g.: "C:\R\R.exe --vanilla". If I've gotten this wrong then I'm sure a Windows user will let us know. Your problem may be related to R loading a previous session that you saved when exiting, where you'd used R.utils, which expects to find R.utils loaded and throws and error when you exit because it isn't. Running R --vanilla will stop R automatically loading the saved R session file .RData. HTH G > > Is there any way I can switch off /reverse this behaviour? (I have had a > look in the archives/documentation but cannot find a solution). > > > Thanks for any help. > > > John Seers -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC & ENSIS, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.