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
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:> I've had some problems installing the R 1.7.0 binary on Windows XP > Professional.*Installing* it? You only describe problems running it -- have you told us the whole story?> 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?-- 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) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:40:29 -0700, you wrote in message <5.1.0.14.0.20030604103751.0238d090 at popmail.ucsd.edu>:>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?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