[Rd] "at 0x78003b44 referenced memory at 0x00000000" (PR#1225)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 jabraham@ucalgary.ca wrote:

> Full_Name: John Abraham
> Version: rw1031
> OS: Windows 2000 Professional
> Submission from: (NULL) (136.159.125.21)
>
>
> A friend introduced me to "R", and it seems just what I need -- a good
> statistical package with an open source
> flavour so that, if it doesn't do what I need it to do, I can extend it.
>
> I installed the latest windows binary, and when I try to run it I get a window
> that's titled "Rterm.exe - Application Error" and
> in the window it says "the instruction at "0x78003b44" referenced memory at
> "0x00000000".  The memory could not be "read".
>
> When I bring up the debugger and call up that address, it seems to bring me into
> the MSVCRT.strcpy routine.  That's strange.  Now I haven't used an assemby
> language debugger for many many years, so maybe I'm misinterpreting this.  But I
> notice I have several versions of MSVCRT.dll on my machine, and I'm assuming
> that this routine is inside one of these dlls.  So is there a particular
> MSVCRT.DLL that I should be using?
>
> Any other ideas?

If all else fails, read the rw-FAQ?

The information is in there, but there's lot more you need to know, like
the purpose of Rterm.exe vs Rgui.exe.

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