I played around with memory limits in R 2.1.0 under XP in order to be able to work with large matrixes (3600x4100). Among several things I tried was to alter console settings and saving them. Since then, I can't restart Rgui. It says several times 'Console not found' with pieces of the text that usually appears in the console and then crashes. Rterm.exe works fine. I've now unistalled R 2.1.0 and installed R 2.1.1 with no effect, still console is not found. Any clues on this? Best regards Manuel ?????? Manuel Schneider Eawag Environmental chemistry Ueberlandstr. 133 8600 D??bendorf Phone +41 44 823 51 18
Sounds like you have corrupted your Rconsole file. Fire up rterm and try ?Rconsole and/or read the rw-FAQ to find the file that it is use. It is not removed by uninstalling, and you do need to remove it. (The console settings have nothing whatsoever to do with memory settings.) Your matrices are not particularly large, BTW, provided you have 1GB or more of RAM. If you have much less, adding some RAM is the most effective way of using R. On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Manuel Schneider wrote:> I played around with memory limits in R 2.1.0 under XP in order to be > able to work with large matrixes (3600x4100). Among several things I > tried was to alter console settings and saving them. > Since then, I can't restart Rgui. It says several times 'Console not > found' with pieces of the text that usually appears in the console and > then crashes. Rterm.exe works fine. > I've now unistalled R 2.1.0 and installed R 2.1.1 with no effect, still > console is not found. > Any clues on 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
On 7/29/2005 8:01 AM, Manuel Schneider wrote:> I played around with memory limits in R 2.1.0 under XP in order to be > able to work with large matrixes (3600x4100). Among several things I > tried was to alter console settings and saving them. > Since then, I can't restart Rgui. It says several times 'Console not > found' with pieces of the text that usually appears in the console and > then crashes. Rterm.exe works fine. > I've now unistalled R 2.1.0 and installed R 2.1.1 with no effect, still > console is not found. > Any clues on this?You have probably got something bad in your startup files. See appendices B.1 and B.2 of the R-intro manual for all the details. In summary, R looks in Renviron.site, Rprofile.site, .Rprofile, .RData and Rconsole for startup information. (Where it looks is complicated; see the manual.) There are command line options to tell it to skip these; in particular, --vanilla tells it to skip all of them. I'd guess your problem is with Rconsole, because that's where the console settings are normally saved. Rename it to something else and your problems should go away. Duncan Murdoch