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R 1.7.0 startup error: .addMethodFrom...

I've had a similar problem that seems to be assoociated with two events 
(using 1.7.0 and win XP home sp1):
1. when using the update.packages() feature from the menu and having the 
system hang. subsequent attempts to start Rgui fail. (However, rterm 
will run -- )
2. or after any time Rgui is hung, there seems to be the *risk* that 
there  will be a problem with some aspect of the methods package. I 
posted a similar note last month but was unable to reproduce the problem 
on a consistent basis....

See the 6/4/03 message and reply from Duncan Murdoch about Win XP and 
crashes for a link to a developmental version  of R that (i'm assuming) 
is a latter version of R patched that seems to have eliminated this 
problem for me. (There was an earlier message that 1.7.1 was due to come 
out mid june --

hth
Joel Kincaid


The solution seems to be to download the pathced version of 1.7.0 from 
cran.
franklin at polisci.wisc.edu wrote:
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