RGui Startup Error on Win2000 (PR#3084)

Joaquin,

In case you don't already know, this problem that you and I had  in R-1.7.0
with tseries does not occur in R-1.7.1 .

BTW,  a real stupid question : is there a line command that can change the
file directory ( unix analogue would be "cd") in Rgui.exe ?  I change
directories using the item under the "File" menu right now, but that's a
real pain.

Thanks,

GB Zambre

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joaquin Diaz-Saiz" <xoaquin@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: <gzambre@ieee.org>; <r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Rd] RGui Startup Error on Win2000 (PR#3084)

Uwe Ligges escribi?:

gzambre@ieee.org wrote:

Full_Name: Girish Zambre
Version: 1.7.0
OS: Win2000
Submission from: (NULL) (66.7.170.2)


I just started looking at and trying R.  The problem could be
external to R, but
I really don't know. It reads
'The instruction at "0x004412f0" referenced memory a "0x0095e40c".
the memory
could not be "read" '

I get this after installing modules "waveslim.zip" and "tseries.zip"

and

restarting.

Dear all,

this is the 2nd bug report on this within one or two days (the other
one has #3079).
Please check
a) whether there is really a bug and
b) whether it has been reported before.


And again two questions:
a) which version of *package* tseries?
b) what way did you install it?

For me
 install.packages("tseries")
works!

I guess you downloaded a tseries version that was compiled for R<1.7.0.
The most recent Windows binary on CRAN ( != most recent tseries
version) for R-1.7.0 should be called tseries_0.9-11.zip on
CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7  --- note the 1.7!!!

Joaquin and Girish, does the correct binary solve your problem?

Uwe Ligges

The version is 0.9-11 and was installed fron CRAN directly using the
menu on R-gui, I assume that it was compiled for R 1.7.0. Also, the
problem is not that I cannot load the package tseries, the problem is
that R does not even start unless I use the option

R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=ctest

at startup.

Also, I should mention that the problem arises only under Windows XP. It
works just fine under Windows 95, Windows 98, as well as RedHat Linus 7.3.

Joaquin Diaz-Saiz