[R] Bug?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There is no known conflict between R and SPSS 12: we run both on Windows 
XP machines.

You seem very keen to blame R for the problems on your machine!

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Alain Yamakana wrote:

> Thanks Professor Ripley and Professor Murdoch. I successfully downloaded and
> installed the suggested R-patched. Prof Ripley's question makes me realize
> that there may be conflict between R and SPSS 12. I had SPSS on my machine
> (Pentium IV from Gateway running under Windows XP) before I installed R1081.
> Three weeks I noticed that my SPSS 12 was not working. I have been told it's
> because I manually changed the location from Program files to C:\Stats. I
> used to do that under Windows 95 without any problem. The technician then
> reinstalled the SPSS 12 in C:\Stats. He tried it and it seemed to work; this
> was about April 2, 04. Since I didn't use SPSS 12, but I did run R1081.
> Today, the SPSS 12 is not working; it fails to start. Hopefully this
> information will be of any interest. In the meantime my problem is solved
> and I am very appreciative of your very kind and prompt reply.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alain
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: "Alain Yamakana" <alain.yamakana at rogers.com>
> Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 12:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Bug?
> 
> 
> > 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?
> >
> > -- 
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> > 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> >
> 
> 

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595