R help - Jul 2000 - q() problem and more.

Hi Rers,

W/o trying to make a long story short (I hope you read that correctly), I
have been working on a nice little R function ...

Somewhere along the line I got an error that refers to a max function in
my function (I think this is a vector vs. scalar issue):

Error in max(..., na.rm = na.rm) : invalid "mode" of argument     

If that's not bad enough, even when I q() R and say I do not want to save
the current workspace and then re-enter R again I am greeting with the
same message in that workspace:

Error in max(..., na.rm = na.rm) : invalid "mode" of argument     

This message also appears in different instances when I try to use the
program, though not the object I think originally produced the error.

Also, from this workspace I can not remove an object from the workspace, I
am greeted with

Error in max(..., na.rm = na.rm) : invalid "mode" of argument     

again when I try rm(ccc).

So what do I want:

I would like to learn how I can salvage my workspace in this situation
(because I have a feeling, knowing R, that this will happen again and
again and is related to some larger problem in R/UNIX I do not yet have a
grasp on).

Under these circumstances, unfortunately, I can not do reliable work with
R from this workspace.

Thanks in advance,

steve
 

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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Steve Arthur wrote:
>If that's not bad enough, even when I q() R and say I do not want to
save
>the current workspace and then re-enter R again I am greeting with the
>same message in that workspace:
>
>Error in max(..., na.rm = na.rm) : invalid "mode" of argument     
A wild guess: Do you have a .RData or .Rprofile file in the working
directory or in the home directory?
I would try starting R with
R --no-init-file --no-restore
and see what happens. If that does the trick, it was probably the case,
and then you should go looking for them, renaming as necessary, and go on
from there.

Best,

Kjetil
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