[R] normalizePath

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 15:19:09 CEST 2011


On 14/09/2011 9:06 AM, boyang zhe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I update R from 2.10 to 2.13.
>
> Then I find soma problems when I start R.
>
> Warning infos as below:
>
> #####
> Warning message:
> In normalizePath(c(new, .Library.site, .Library), "/") :
>    path[1]="": No such file or directory
>
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
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> #####
>
> Why it generate those infos about normalizePath and how to remove it?

I would guess you have something in an Rprofile or Rprofile.site file 
that is causing the error.  See ?Startup for the rules on where R looks 
for those files, and the other things that happen during startup that 
might be causing this.

Duncan Murdoch



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