Hi all- Some recent change...perhaps a windows update, or perhaps a change in the network on which I use my computer....has made it impossible for me to start R. When I try to start the program, I get a message that says "Fatal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE". Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks much Chris ******* Chris Solomon Center for Limnology Univ. of Wisconsin (715) 356-9494
It is (a not very recent) Windows XP update. A simple search of the archives of this list will find you a dozen or more answers to this question. The simplest is to add HOME=P:\Solomon (for some suitable path that actually exists) to the end of the target of the shortcut you used to start R. On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Chris Solomon wrote:> Some recent change...perhaps a windows update, or perhaps a change in > the network on which I use my computer....has made it impossible for me > to start R. When I try to start the program, I get a message that says > "Fatal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE". Any ideas on how to fix this?-- 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
Chris Solomon wrote:> Hi all- > > Some recent change...perhaps a windows update, or perhaps a change in > the network on which I use my computer....has made it impossible for me > to start R. When I try to start the program, I get a message that says > "Fatal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE". Any ideas on how to fix this? > > Thanks much > Chris >Chris, we have seen this question roughly 83264861846 times on R-help now (this might be a very subjective estimation - in fact, I haven't counted). Please search the mail archives before asking questions. The solution is to use R-patched, available at YourCRANmirror/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html It's CHANGES file contains the following lines: Workaround for bug in Microsoft critical update KB835732: if HOMEPATH environment variable is not set properly, R would not start (PR#6802). Uwe Ligges> > ******* > Chris Solomon > Center for Limnology > Univ. of Wisconsin > (715) 356-9494 > > ______________________________________________ > 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.html