Re: [R] R commander (Rcmdr) won't start [SOLVED]

2019-12-08 Thread Fox, John
Dear Gabriele, > On Dec 8, 2019, at 3:35 AM, gabriele pallotti wrote: > > Dear John, > thank you for your prompt reply. An inexperienced user like me tends to see > the .Rdata folder like the document folder for other programs, and, as one > doesn't have to delete the document folder when

Re: [R] R commander (Rcmdr) won't start [SOLVED]

2019-12-08 Thread gabriele pallotti
Dear John, thank you for your prompt reply. An inexperienced user like me tends to see the .Rdata folder like the document folder for other programs, and, as one doesn't have to delete the document folder when updating Libreoffice, tends to think the same for R. But let me take the opportunity to

Re: [R] R commander (Rcmdr) won't start [SOLVED]

2019-12-06 Thread Fox, John
Dear Gabriele, I'm glad that you were able to solve your problem. I spent a bit of time today updating my R from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 and updating all R packages on Ubuntu, and, for what is now an obvious reason, I was unable to duplicate the problem. Saving the .Rhistory file is benign but saving

Re: [R] R commander (Rcmdr) won't start [SOLVED]

2019-12-06 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Experienced R users avoid creating .Rdata files (with nothing in front of the period) because R will automatically load them and any mistakes recorded there can interfere with future uses of R when started from the directory containing that file. RData files with something in front of the

[R] R commander (Rcmdr) won't start [SOLVED]

2019-12-06 Thread gabriele pallotti
I managed to get Rcmdr working simply by deleting the .Rdata and .Rhistory file from the work directory. It is rather weird, as I thought they only contained data and settings, but probably some of these belonged to the older version of R/Rcmdr and were not compatible with the new version. I'll