Dear all,
One of my students have installed R1.9.0 on windows, and gets the fatal error
'invalid HOMEDRIVE'
Can anyone help her/me out on that one?
Thanks in advance
Søren Højsgaard
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Do look in the archives when this has come up tens of times. The usual cause is a bug in a Windows XP critical update: see http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/HOMEPATH.html Adding HOME=C:/ (or some other sensible value) to the end of the target in the shortcut used to launch R will circumvent this. (There are more details in the rw-FAQ on how to set environment variables.) On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, S??ren H??jsgaard wrote:> Dear all, > One of my students have installed R1.9.0 on windows, and gets the fatal error > 'invalid HOMEDRIVE' > Can anyone help her/me out on that one? > Thanks in advance > S??ren H??jsgaard-- 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
This was discussed on the list toward the end of April 2004. You might have a look at the following: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/26983.html as well as other posts leading up to that. Also, your student might install the patched version: http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cran/bin/windows/base/rw1091alpha.exe hope this helps, Chuck Cleland S??ren H??jsgaard wrote:> One of my students have installed R1.9.0 on windows, and gets the fatal error > 'invalid HOMEDRIVE' > Can anyone help her/me out on that one?-- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 452-1424 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894