Hello, I run R 1.9.1 on a Windows XP machine. In the last week, I have started to get the following error message (about 85% of the time) when I attempt to start R: "Fatal error: cannot find unused tempdir name" I get this message whether I attempt to start R in interactive or batch mode. Looking at the help-manual description of tempdir didn't provide me with any obvious clues to the problem. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling R 1.9.1, but this was of no help to the problem either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Best, Mike Epstein
Take a look at your temporary dir, and see if you can clear it out. ?tempdir tells you where it is. On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Michael Epstein wrote:> Hello, > > I run R 1.9.1 on a Windows XP machine. In the last week, I have started to > get the following error message (about 85% of the time) when I attempt to > start R: > > "Fatal error: cannot find unused tempdir name" > > I get this message whether I attempt to start R in interactive or batch > mode. > > Looking at the help-manual description of tempdir didn't provide me with > any obvious clues to the problem. I also tried uninstalling and > reinstalling R 1.9.1, but this was of no help to the problem either. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > > Best, > > Mike Epstein > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > >-- 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
Not R specific but that kind of error is quite often related to a lack of hard drive space. Mark Fowle -------------------------------------------------------> Navicom Inc. > One Steelcase Road W > Markham, On L3T 0T3 > 905-415-3207------------------------------------------------------- People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Epstein [mailto:mepstein@umich.edu] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 3:33 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Unable to start R due to error with tempdir() Hello, I run R 1.9.1 on a Windows XP machine. In the last week, I have started to get the following error message (about 85% of the time) when I attempt to start R: "Fatal error: cannot find unused tempdir name" I get this message whether I attempt to start R in interactive or batch mode. Looking at the help-manual description of tempdir didn't provide me with any obvious clues to the problem. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling R 1.9.1, but this was of no help to the problem either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Best, Mike Epstein ______________________________________________ R-help@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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]