[Rd] Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE (PR#6802)
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Apr 20 17:53:47 CEST 2004
This is not a bug in R, and you have just send the message to R-help.
Don't abuse the bug repository -- a `Network Administrator' really ought
to know better.
That message is also generated if HOMEPATH is wrongly set, so please check
that too. Reasonable settings are
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\ripley
and %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% must be a valid path if HOMEDRIVE is set.
You can avoid this by setting HOME. This *is* mentioned in the README
file!
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 joannw at usca.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: Joann Williamson
> Version: 1.9.0
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.252.198.28)
>
>
> I installed R project 1.9.0 on Windows XP. The installation went well. Then, I
> rebooted. Next, I clicked the icon under Programs in the Start menu and
> received this error, "Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE". I clicked OK to the
> error message. The program does not start. I went to a DOS prompt and did
> echo %HOMEDRIVE% and it returned C:. This letter is a valid drive letter.
> Can you tell me how to fix this?
> Thanks you,
> Joann Williamson
> Network Administrator
> University of South Carolina Aiken
> 471 University Parkway
> Aiken, SC 29801
> 803-641-3473
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