Full_Name: Joann Williamson Version: 1.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.252.198.28) I installed R project 1.9.0 on Windows XP. The installation went well. Then, I rebooted. Next, I clicked the icon under Programs in the Start menu and received this error, "Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE". I clicked OK to the error message. The program does not start. I went to a DOS prompt and did ?echo %HOMEDRIVE%? and it returned ?C:?. This letter is a valid drive letter. Can you tell me how to fix this? Thanks you, Joann Williamson Network Administrator University of South Carolina Aiken 471 University Parkway Aiken, SC 29801 803-641-3473
Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE (PR#6802)
3 messages · joannw@usca.edu, Peter Dalgaard, Brian Ripley
joannw@usca.edu writes:
Full_Name: Joann Williamson Version: 1.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.252.198.28) I installed R project 1.9.0 on Windows XP. The installation went well. Then, I rebooted. Next, I clicked the icon under Programs in the Start menu and received this error, "Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE". I clicked OK to the error message. The program does not start. I went to a DOS prompt and did ?echo %HOMEDRIVE%? and it returned ?C:?. This letter is a valid drive letter. Can you tell me how to fix this?
This is not (likely) a bug in R, so why are you submitting to R-bugs? ...within minutes of sending to R-help, to boot.
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This is not a bug in R, and you have just send the message to R-help. Don't abuse the bug repository -- a `Network Administrator' really ought to know better. That message is also generated if HOMEPATH is wrongly set, so please check that too. Reasonable settings are HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\ripley and %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% must be a valid path if HOMEDRIVE is set. You can avoid this by setting HOME. This *is* mentioned in the README file!
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 joannw@usca.edu wrote:
Full_Name: Joann Williamson Version: 1.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (129.252.198.28) I installed R project 1.9.0 on Windows XP. The installation went well. Then, I rebooted. Next, I clicked the icon under Programs in the Start menu and received this error, "Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE". I clicked OK to the error message. The program does not start. I went to a DOS prompt and did ?echo %HOMEDRIVE%? and it returned ?C:?. This letter is a valid drive letter. Can you tell me how to fix this? Thanks you, Joann Williamson Network Administrator University of South Carolina Aiken 471 University Parkway Aiken, SC 29801 803-641-3473
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595