I had the same problem. When using ''qsu'' to install it doesn''t seem to set the permissions right. I had to ''chmod -R'' on the library to give everyone access. John Strumila john.strumila at team.telstra.com -----Original Message----- From: Javier Mu?oz Criado [mailto:jajosmu at ine.es] Sent: Friday, 5 May 2000 1:23 To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: I have installed r on my pc with windows 95 and I get this message: fatal error: unable to open the base package Any help? Javier -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. -.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _._ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._