[R] RGui error on Windows 2000

[Simon.Gatehouse@csiro.au]

The following might be of benefit to those who find themselves in a similar
predicament with an apparently corrupted R in Windows 2000. 

The problem was traced back to a corrupted register in my user profile in
Windows 2000 apparently caused by a DLL in Visual Basic installation not
self registering correctly.

The fix was to copy a new uncorrupted register from the default user. Though
some of my desktop settings were altered, all problems were fixed with no
discernable impact on R or .Rdata files. Interestingly, the problem did not
recur when the offending VB exectable was installed again and both R and the
other program now happily coexist. In short, I don't know what caused the
problem nor what a general solution might be.

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Simon Gatehouse                                  
CSIRO Exploration and Mining,
Newbigin Close off Julius Ave
North Ryde, NSW
 
Mail:      PO Box 136, North Ryde
           NSW 1670, Australia
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Fax:       61 (2) 9490 8921
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E-mail:    simon.gatehouse at csiro.au
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