R-beta: R-0.62.1 under Digital Unix

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Mark A. Beaumont" <M.Beaumont at ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Following my previous practice I then make a symbolic link to R from
> /usr/local/bin. However when I then run R I get.


> 
> ...opening messages...
> 
> Error: memory exhausted
> > 1+1
> [1] 2
> > a <- c(1,2,3,4)
> > a
> [1] 1 2 3 4
> > help()
> Error: Object ".Library" not found
> > help(c)
> Error: Object ".lib.loc" not found
> 

Some thing is clearly going wrong during the reading of the init code.
The question is "where?". It *is* a bit of a design problem in R that
that isn't readily seen. 

It could be in the reading of $RHOME/library/base/R/base which you
might want to check looks reasonable. You could also try to run
(from the top level of the R source tree) something like

R> source('library/base/R/base',echo=T)

which should rerun the init code, but with echoing turned on, so that
if it stops prematurely, you'll know why.

It is somewhat unlikely that the base file should be the culprit,
though, because it only defines a bunch of functions without actually
executing anything except "<-". 

Perhaps something in the system Rprofile is doing you in. Again, try
sourcing it with echo on. In particular, might there be a problem with
getenv() on your system?

Just to be sure, also check for stray .RData and .Rprofile files. If
the former exists and is too large, that would explain it all by
itself... 

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