[R] Bug?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Yes, it is a bug, but not in R.  It is a bug in a Windows XP critical 
update: are you *sure* no new software has been installed behind your 
back?

The fix (which you can find several times in the list archives) is to add

R_USER=c:/

(or better, the correct path to your home aka personal directory) to the
shortcut you use to start R.

There is a workaround in R-patched, usually available from

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html

but I think that has the wrong version at present since it is labelled
R-2.0.0 patch build for Windows and contains rw2000dev.exe, not 
rw1090pat.exe.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Alain Yamakana wrote:

> Either something is wrong with my machine or there may be a bugg. I had run
> R-1.8.1 two weeks ago. Since yesterday, I am getting this message:<<R for
> Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are
> sorry for the inconvenience.>> No new software has been installed since I
> installed R-1.8.1. Tired to fail getting R-1.8.1 work, I decided to install
> R-1.9.0 and got the following message <<Fatal Error. HOMEDRIVE>>. How to
> solve either one of these two problems?

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