[Rd] unable to open the base package (PR#867)

Bruno Mendes mendes@cse.ucsc.edu
Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:55:46 -0800 (PST)


As silly as it might seem, that was right.

Thanks very much Prof. Ripley.

	Bruno Mendes.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 mendes@cse.ucsc.edu wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to use R that someone installed in his own home directory
> > (which is located on a common filesystem). Now, he is able to use it with
> > no problems, but when I try to run it I get the following messages (the
> > first line is just the command line, and the way I call the program):
> >
> > an2 1> /projects/draper/R-1.2.1/bin/R
> > cannot find system Renviron
> > R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
> > Version 1.2.1  (2001-01-15)
> >
> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details.
> >
> > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > Type `contributors()' for more information.
> >
> > Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or
> > `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> > Type `q()' to quit R.
> >
> > Fatal error: unable to open the base package
> >
> >
> > The system we are running is SunOS Release 5.8 Generic.
> >
> > Can you help us in any way?
> 
> Do you permission to read the files in his R installation?
> Looks not.
> 
> The current version is 1.2.2, BTW.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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