[R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

[Z P]

it is for windows. R can not start, one information windows says fatal 
error: invalid homedrive.




>From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>To: David Scott <d.scott at auckland.ac.nz>
>CC: Joann Williamson <JoannW at usca.edu>, r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:44:50 +0100 (BST)
>
>Has this anything to do with `Invalid HOMEDRIVE', as given in the subject
>line?  R can only fail with one error message, so which is it, please?
>
>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, David Scott wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brett Melbourne wrote:
> >
> > > That exact same thing is happening to me too. It seems to be 
>intermittent.
> > > After a reboot, it might (but might not) fix itself. My older versions 
>of R
> > > also no longer work. R1.8.1 fails with the windows message "R for 
>Windows
> > > GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are 
>sorry
> > > for the inconvenience."
> > >
> > > This appears to have occured to me after installing the latest 
>Microsoft
> > > Windows critical updates. I have reinstalled R1.8.1 and R1.9.0 to no 
>avail.
> > > None of the other programs on my computer are affected, only R.
> > >
> > > Is anybody else experiencing this?
> > >
> >
> > Yes. With 1.8.1 if the updates are installed R fails as you indicate. If
> > the updates are taken off it works again. Bit of a problem here because
> > the University IT Security runs checks on the updates and complains to
> > users who don't have them installed.
> >
> >
> > > Brett
> > > Brett Melbourne, Postdoctoral Fellow
> > > Biological Invasions IGERT www.cpb.ucdavis.edu/bioinv
> > > Center for Population Biology, Storer Hall
> > > University of California Davis CA 95616
> > >
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