[R] as.double.default()

[Uwe Ligges]

Alain Yamakana wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> This is my second message in two weeks. I am regretting to get ride of my
> R-1.4.1! In fact, since I upgraded to R-1.8.1 (directly from R-1.4.1) and
> then to R-1.9.0 I am experiencing diffulties I never faced before. Professor
> Ripley and Dr. Murdoch had helped with the "Fatal Error. HOMEDRIVE." Another
> problem I am now facing is that R is not reading any matrix if I do not
> specify as.numer(). For instance, if I want to operate on matrix M I need to
> write operation_intended(as.numeric(M)) otherwise I got the following
> message "Error in as.double.default(): object cannot be coerced to double."

We don't know what "operation_intended" is. We do not know what kind of 
object "M" is - and what is its mode? Hence we cannot help here....


> I would appreciate your help to fix either the as.double.default() error or
> the "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to
> close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." encountered when running R-1.8.1
> so that I can stay with this version I successfully used for while.

It's exactly the same problem as that one you quoted above for R-1.9.0: 
"Fatal Error. HOMEDRIVE.", just producing another kind of error. The 
same workaround applies here as well.

Uwe Ligges

> Best regards,
> Alain
> 
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