[R] R 1.9.1 Fails to Start on WinXP SP2

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:15:51 -0500, "Scott Higginbotham"
<Scott at creditre.net> wrote:

>
>I should have noted in my first post that I had already tried that to no
>avail.

In that case, things aren't easy.  You need to see where in the
startup sequence it's bailing out.  We don't have debug code installed
to do that (because this isn't a common problem!), so the only way I
know to find that is to compile R with debug information, and run it
under a debugger.  If you've never done that, it's a big job.

Duncan Murdoch


>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:35 PM
>To: Scott Higginbotham
>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [R] R 1.9.1 Fails to Start on WinXP SP2
>
>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:59:31 -0500, "Scott Higginbotham"
><Scott at creditre.net> wrote :
>
>>I have two computers both of which are running Windows XP SP2. R 1.9.1
>>runs just fine on one but not the other. Both installations of R came
>>from the same installation package. When I click on the desktop icon an
>>hourglass shows up then disappears. Similarly, if I start RGUI the
>>process shows up in task-manager then abruptly disappears.
>>Interestingly, I can access R in Excel via the D(COM) Server on both
>>computers.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>Not a one!  Could you please try the beta build available on CRAN at
>
>http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html
>
>Thanks!
>
>Duncan Murdoch
>
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