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I've had a interesting day with R; can anyone offer any advice? First with R 1.8.1. on XP Pro: "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I then tried installing 1.9.0. and got the "information" dialogue: "Fatal error: INVALID HOMEDRIVE" instead of a functioning R! I attempted to set

R never gave me any serious problems until I tried to use it on Windows XP. I had 1.8.1 installed and working successfully for a few weeks. This morning when I launched it, I received this error message: "R for Windows GUI front-end has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I downloaded 1.9.0 and installed it, but when I launch it, I get this

All, I've encountered the same problem as others who have posted under the same subject. I've had R-1.8.1 installed and running since it was released. Yesterday morning when I tried to start Rgui.exe I got the subject error message. Since I live at the whim of the network administrators I can only assume it was a recent MS critical update. I tried installing R-1.9.0 but no joy. I