filehash

I suspect you have a file permission problem, and noticed filehash has 
some bugs which would mask this.  E.g. it does

createDB1 <- function(dbName) {
    if(!hasWorkingFtell())
        stop("need working 'ftell()' to use 'DB1' format")
    if(!file.exists(dbName))
        file.create(dbName)
    else
        message(gettextf("database '%s' already exists", dbName))
    TRUE
}

and so fails to check that file.create succeeded, and calls message() on 
an already translated message without 'domain=NA'.  (It also calls 
dir.create without checking the result.)

As far as I can see filehash will try to create a file in the current 
working directory.  Did you set up the shortcut as dscribed in the 
rw-FAQ so that the working directory was owned by you?

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Davood Tofighi wrote:

Hello,

I'm using filehash on the windows XP and it has been working fine with 
the
newest R version 2.6.2. However, on the windows vista, when I ran the 
same
code, I got the following error:

dbCreate("simdb")    #create simdb database

[1] TRUE

db<-dbInit("simdb")  #initiate an object of database

Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
 object "datafile" not found

Thanks,
Davood

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