[R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE

[Brett Melbourne]

Hi Brian,

R1.9.0 fails with the message  "Fatal error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE" and no
prompt to send an error report to Microsoft.

R1.8.1 fails with the message "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a
problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience", included
in a prompt to send an error report to Microsoft.

For both versions, R fails to start at all. I'm running Windows XP Pro, and
like David Scott I'm supposed to install the XP critical updates as soon as
they come out, which I did last week.

I suppose, given the other reports of this behaviour, the subject line
should be "R fails after installing Windows XP updates".

Cheers
Brett


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "David Scott" <d.scott at auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: "Brett Melbourne" <bamelbourne at ucdavis.edu>; "Joann Williamson"
<JoannW at usca.edu>; <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Error with 1.9.0 - Invalid HOMEDRIVE


> 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
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> > >
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