[Rd] RGui Startup Error on Win2000 (PR#3084)

[Uwe Ligges]

Girish Zambre wrote:

> Joaquin,
> 
> In case you don't already know, this problem that you and I had  in R-1.7.0
> with tseries does not occur in R-1.7.1 .
> 
> BTW,  a real stupid question : is there a line command that can change the
> file directory ( unix analogue would be "cd") in Rgui.exe ?  I change
> directories using the item under the "File" menu right now, but that's a
> real pain.

setwd()

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks,
> 
> GB Zambre
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joaquin Diaz-Saiz" <xoaquin at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> Cc: <gzambre at ieee.org>; <r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] RGui Startup Error on Win2000 (PR#3084)
> 
> 
> 
>>Uwe Ligges escribió:
>>
>>
>>>gzambre at ieee.org wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Full_Name: Girish Zambre
>>>>Version: 1.7.0
>>>>OS: Win2000
>>>>Submission from: (NULL) (66.7.170.2)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I just started looking at and trying R.  The problem could be
>>>>external to R, but
>>>>I really don't know. It reads
>>>>'The instruction at "0x004412f0" referenced memory a "0x0095e40c".
>>>>the memory
>>>>could not be "read" '
>>>>
>>>>I get this after installing modules "waveslim.zip" and "tseries.zip"
> 
> and
> 
>>>>restarting.
>>>
>>>
>>>Dear all,
>>>
>>>this is the 2nd bug report on this within one or two days (the other
>>>one has #3079).
>>>Please check
>>> a) whether there is really a bug and
>>> b) whether it has been reported before.
>>>
>>>
>>>And again two questions:
>>> a) which version of *package* tseries?
>>> b) what way did you install it?
>>>
>>>For me
>>>  install.packages("tseries")
>>>works!
>>>
>>>I guess you downloaded a tseries version that was compiled for R<1.7.0.
>>>The most recent Windows binary on CRAN ( != most recent tseries
>>>version) for R-1.7.0 should be called tseries_0.9-11.zip on
>>>CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.7  --- note the 1.7!!!
>>>
>>>Joaquin and Girish, does the correct binary solve your problem?
>>>
>>>Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>
>>The version is 0.9-11 and was installed fron CRAN directly using the
>>menu on R-gui, I assume that it was compiled for R 1.7.0. Also, the
>>problem is not that I cannot load the package tseries, the problem is
>>that R does not even start unless I use the option
>>
>>R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=ctest
>>
>>at startup.
>>
>>Also, I should mention that the problem arises only under Windows XP. It
>>works just fine under Windows 95, Windows 98, as well as RedHat Linus 7.3.
>>
>>Joaquin Diaz-Saiz
>>
> 
>