[R] R 2.11.1 crashes

[Ben Bolker]

Tal Galili <tal.galili <at> gmail.com> writes:

> You'll need to give more information for people to help you.
> 
> 1) Is this the first time you installed R?  Or was it a working R version
> that suddenly started having this problem?
> 2) Did you try uninstalling this version, downloading a new version,
> installing it - and seeing what happens?
> 3) Do you have an office firewall ? (what type?)

  He said that he had no internet connection, so the firewall must
be irrelevant?

> In the installation process, you can set the type of help file you get.
>  maybe that would resolve your issue (although I have a feeling you need to
> reinstall R and it would work - it shouldn't need internet for help).

[snip]

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Steve Su <ssu <at> maths.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> > I was using R 2.11.1 without internet connection on Windows XP and whenever
> > I type ?mean for example, R would freeze and crash out...
> >
> > Is this something that can be fixed? I would like to use the internel help
> > file if possible...

   Does the system give any warning/error messages at all, or does
R just terminate without a trace?