R devel - Jun 2003 - problem with temp dir (PR#3272)

Hi,
I recently installed R on a Windows 95 machine. Everything went well untill
I tried to run the program. I get the R console and a message "fatal error
can't mkdir R_TempDir". The R-help archive has a report of a similar
problem
but the instructions for repair seem to assume that the R console is
available (the program closes after the error). An installation on an
identical machine works fine? I would greatly appreciate help with this.
Regards
Alex

Alex Hanke
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
St. Andrews Biological Station
531 Brandy Cove Road
St. Andrews, NB
Canada
E5B 2L9

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:04:29 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote in message
<200306171404.h5HE4T2b007195@pubhealth.ku.dk>:
>Hi,
>I recently installed R on a Windows 95 machine. Everything went well untill
>I tried to run the program. I get the R console and a message "fatal
error
>can't mkdir R_TempDir". 
Do you have one of the environment variables TMP, TEMP, or R_USER
defined? (To find out, go into a DOS window and type "set", or
"set |
more" if the list is too long to read all at once.) 

R tries to create a temporary subdirectory under the directory named
by those, in that order.  If the first one found gives the name of a
non-existent directory, you would see that error.

Duncan Murdoch