[R] R crash after fGarch update

Prof Brian Ripley
2009-02-17T07:09:23Z

Start R with --vanilla, or rename youe saved workspace (.RData).
Then

library(fGarch)
load(".RData")  # or whatever you renamed it to.

This will either work or (more ikely) tell you it cannot find fGarch
or a package it depends on).

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, John Kerpel wrote:

> Hi folks!
> After updating my packages my R seems to have completely crashed as will
not
> start up - even after I installed 2.8.1 from 2.8.0.

You haven't told us your OS: I am guesing Windows.

> I get the following:
>
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .Rdata
>
> Error in loadNamespeace(name): there is no package called fGarch
>
> But I do have a package called fGarch.
>
> After I hit ok, it crashes and exits.  I cannot use any functionality at
> all.  What do I do?
>
> John
>
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