[Rd] Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE (PR#6802)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is not a bug in R, and you have just send the message to R-help.
Don't abuse the bug repository -- a `Network Administrator' really ought 
to know better.

That message is also generated if HOMEPATH is wrongly set, so please check 
that too.  Reasonable settings are

HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\ripley

and %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% must be a valid path if HOMEDRIVE is set.

You can avoid this by setting HOME. This *is* mentioned in the README 
file!



On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 joannw at usca.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Joann Williamson
> Version: 1.9.0
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.252.198.28)
> 
> 
> I installed R project 1.9.0 on Windows XP.  The installation went well. Then, I
> rebooted.  Next, I clicked the icon under Programs in the Start menu and
> received this error, "Fatal Error: Invalid HOMEDRIVE".  I clicked OK to the
> error message.  The program does not start.  I went to a DOS prompt and did
> “echo %HOMEDRIVE%” and it returned “C:”.  This letter is a valid drive letter. 
> Can you tell me how to fix this?  
> Thanks you,
> Joann Williamson 
> Network Administrator
> University of South Carolina Aiken
> 471 University Parkway
> Aiken, SC 29801
> 803-641-3473

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