[R] Problem with R Installation - .RData

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-01-28 5:15 AM, Iva wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have Windows Vista and I want to install R. However, when I tried to start
> it after the installation, I received the following message:
>
> 'Fatal error. I cannot retrieve the saved data from .RData'. So, in the
> moment R does not work.
>
> Do you have any idea how to cope with this problem?

Find the bad .RData file and move it out of the way.  The rules R uses 
to find it are somewhat involved; you might find it easiest just to use 
Windows utilities to find it.  But here are the rules to find the home 
directory where .RData would be found.

"The home directory is set as follows: If environment variable R_USER is 
set, its value is used. Otherwise if environment variable HOME is set, 
its value is used. After those two user-controllable settings, R tries 
to find system-defined home directories. It first tries to use the 
Windows "personal" directory (typically C:\Documents and 
Settings\username\My Documents on Windows XP and 
C:\Users\username\Documents on Vista/Windows 7). If that fails, if both 
environment variables HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are set (and they normally 
are), the value is ${HOMEDRIVE}${HOMEPATH}. If all of these fail, the 
current working directory is used."

Duncan Murdoch