Hi, I recently installed R on a Windows 95 machine. Everything went well untill I tried to run the program. I get the R console and a message "fatal error can't mkdir R_TempDir". The R-help archive has a report of a similar problem but the instructions for repair seem to assume that the R console is available (the program closes after the error). An installation on an identical machine works fine? I would greatly appreciate help with this. Regards Alex Alex Hanke Department of Fisheries and Oceans St. Andrews Biological Station 531 Brandy Cove Road St. Andrews, NB Canada E5B 2L9
problem with temp dir (PR#3272)
2 messages · Hanke, Alex, Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:04:29 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote in message <200306171404.h5HE4T2b007195@pubhealth.ku.dk>:
Hi, I recently installed R on a Windows 95 machine. Everything went well untill I tried to run the program. I get the R console and a message "fatal error can't mkdir R_TempDir".
Do you have one of the environment variables TMP, TEMP, or R_USER defined? (To find out, go into a DOS window and type "set", or "set | more" if the list is too long to read all at once.) R tries to create a temporary subdirectory under the directory named by those, in that order. If the first one found gives the name of a non-existent directory, you would see that error. Duncan Murdoch