[R] R 1.9.1 Fails to Start on WinXP SP2

[Liaw, Andy]

Perhaps a couple of things to try before that:

1. See what Rterm.exe does.
2. See whether it makes any difference if the --vanilla flag is added to the
shortcut to Rgui.exe.  (E.g., was Rgui trying to load an existing .rda file
or execute some startup code on the computer that had the problem, and
otherwise on the other?)

Andy

> From: 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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