[R] R cannot be started

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Sep 13 12:11:32 CEST 2010



On 07.09.2010 18:53, Tao wrote:
>
> I used Rtools for installing a package under Windows XP. I used commands like
> R CMD INSTALL (build, check) in the CMD window. It worked well until I found
> that my revised package can be updated with R CMD INSTALL. After I restarted
> my computer, R cannot be started any more. I double click the R icon, it
> gives me no response.
>
> I tried to start R in the CMD window, it gives me an error message like "R
> for Windows front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are
> sorry for the inconvenience." The error signature is like
> "AppName: r.exe	 AppVer: 2.100.50208.0	 ModName: msvcrt.dll
> ModVer: 7.0.2600.2180	 Offset: 000360cb"
>
>


Sounds like your OS or R is broken now. Perhaps an upate of your OS or a 
corrupted file / filesystem on your hard disc? This is probably not an R 
problem.

Uwe Ligges



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