Crash with R1.7.0 + Windows XP Professional - R-help

Wed, Jun 4, 2003 10:40 AM #

Dear R-Help,

I've had some problems installing the R 1.7.0 binary on Windows XP 
Professional. If I launch R from the Start Menu or the Desktop, R crashes. 
However, if I launch by double-clicking on an .RData file, R loads up just 
fine. I've never had any problems with previous versions/OS. Has anyone 
else encountered this problem?

Thanks!
Simon

Brian Ripley

Wed, Jun 4, 2003 11:40 AM #

Sounds as if you have a corrupt .RData file in your default working 
directory for R.  Try renaming it, or otherwise starting with --vanilla.

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Simon Frost wrote:

*Installing* it?  You only describe problems running it -- have you told 
us the whole story?

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Duncan Murdoch

Wed, Jun 4, 2003 11:49 AM #

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:40:29 -0700, you wrote in message
<5.1.0.14.0.20030604103751.0238d090 at popmail.ucsd.edu>:

It sounds to me as though it is trying to automatically load something
it doesn't like.  See the "Invoking R under Windows" section of the
"An Introduction to R" manual for the loading sequence, and try
playing around with options and/or deleting files to see if that fixes
it.  You can get to the extreme of loading nothing at all by using the
--vanilla option on the command line; if that crashes, then there's
some other problem.

The other piece of advice is to please try out the 1.7.1 beta.  This
might be a bug that has already been fixed.  You can get a recent
build from 

< http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel>

Duncan Murdoch