[R] "utils" lacking namespace?

[Duncan Murdoch]

Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
> Hi all,
> A colleague of mine tried to install the package EMV, which had been
> removed from CRAN.
> she ran into some kind of trouble, R locked up, and she closed the program.
> Now when she starts R, "utils" can't be loaded which of course create
> an unworkable environment.
> Below I've copy-pasted the error message she gets when starting R.
> Any ideas on what went wrong, and more importantly, how to fix it?
>   

No idea of the details of what went wrong, but it looks as though your 
colleague has some bad startup file (Renviron, Rprofile, etc; see 
?Startup for the full list) or has actually damaged her R installation.  
I'd try re-installing it first, because that's easy, then work through 
?Startup and see if there are some bad files or environment variables 
messing things up.

Duncan Murdoch
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Gustaf Rydevik
>
> Ps: She's running R on a WinXP box, if that might be of relevance...
>
>
>
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> Error : package 'utils' does not have a name space
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> Warning message:
> package "methods" in options("defaultPackages") was not found Error in
> library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE,  :
>   'utils' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
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