Fatal error: you must specify '--save', '--no-save' or '--vanilla'

Andreas Maunz wrote:

Hi, I get the above error when starting my program with rake (ruby 
make) instead of manual startup (which works as expected).
It happens on R initialization with "REmbeddedPostgres --gui=none 
--silent" as arguments (this is part of my way of embedding R in a C 
application using libR.so). Any help would be appreciated!

So you have not tried to add one of the mentioned flags?

I did, actually! ;-)
Increasing the options to "REmbeddedPostgres --no-save --gui=none 
--silent" results in the following:

Error: syntax error in:
"ironment <- function () .Internal(environment(NULL))
     mkenv <- function() .Internal(new.env(TRUE, baseenv(), 29L"

The code is taken from http://developer.r-project.org/embedded.html 
(Initializing R from within an Application).

Again, I want to stress that the program works as expected when calling 
it directly, or via a shell skript.

It is a C application that listens as a daemon on some port, using 
fork() and output redirection to a socket (at first I suspected this 
could be a problem).

Best regards,
Andreas Maunz

http://www.maunz.de

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