[R] Error message after R-3.0.0 upgrade installation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 30/04/2013 07:44, Anupam Tyagi wrote:
> R-3.0.0 prints an error message at startup. I uninstalled a previous
> version and installed this on Windows 8. Uninstall of previous version
> deleted all previously installed packages and I forgot to keep a list
> of them. How do I correct this error?
>
> "
> Error: requested primitive type is not consistent with catched value
> Error: requested primitive type is not consistent with catched value
>

Really?  That is not the message from R 3.0.0 (it says 'cached').

So you are not telling us the whole story, and we cannot help until you do.

If you have not already, try starting R with --vanilla.  If that works, 
the issue is a saved workspace file (a .RData file) that needs to be 
moved out of the way.


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