Dear colleagues, I am a beginner of using R. I am involved in some microarray data analyses and found that R is the most common software in this area. I tried to install the free software today. It seemed to be successful in installing, but when I trigger the short-cut, I got a error massage saying 'Fetal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE'. I have no idea where the homedrive was defined (or implied) and how to solve the problem. I wonder if someone could help me to start the first step of this fancy trip. Many thanks! Don Li National Cancer Institute of Canada - Clinical Trials Group
The problem is probably a bug in your OS. You haven't even told us what that is, but I bet you have Windows XP with critical update KB835732 installed. If so, see http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/HOMEPATH.html and the archives of this list. On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, don wrote:> I am a beginner of using R. I am involved in some microarray data > analyses and found that R is the most common software in this area. I > tried to install the free software today. It seemed to be successful in > installing, but when I trigger the short-cut, I got a error massage > saying 'Fetal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE'. I have no idea where the > homedrive was defined (or implied) and how to solve the problem. I > wonder if someone could help me to start the first step of this fancy trip.-- 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
Hi Don! Welcome new R user. Just use one of the mailing list search interfaces which you can find browsing the www.r-project.org page. After you find the search interface just paste you error message in the search form. I ensure you you will find the a lot of e-mails wich will help you to solve your problem. Sincerely Eryk *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/7/2004 at 1:44 PM don wrote:>>>Dear colleagues, >>>I am a beginner of using R. I am involved in some microarray data >>>analyses and found that R is the most common software in this area. I >>>tried to install the free software today. It seemed to be successful in >>>installing, but when I trigger the short-cut, I got a error massage >>>saying 'Fetal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE'. I have no idea where the >>>homedrive was defined (or implied) and how to solve the problem. I >>>wonder if someone could help me to start the first step of this fancy >>>trip. >>>Many thanks! >>> >>>Don Li >>>National Cancer Institute of Canada - Clinical Trials Group >>> >>>______________________________________________ >>>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>>https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htmlDipl. bio-chem. Eryk Witold Wolski @ MPI-Moleculare Genetic Ihnestrasse 63-73 14195 Berlin 'v' tel: 0049-30-83875219 / \ mail: wolski at molgen.mpg.de ---W-W---- http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski
Don Li wrote:> I am a beginner of using R. I am involved in some microarray data > analyses and found that R is the most common software in this area. I > tried to install the free software today. It seemed to be successful in > installing, but when I trigger the short-cut, I got a error massage > saying 'Fetal error: .....Shouldn't that be ``Foetal error''? :-) cheers, Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca