[R] 'invalid HOMEDRIVE'

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Do look in the archives when this has come up tens of times.  The usual
cause is a bug in a Windows XP critical update: see

http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/HOMEPATH.html

Adding HOME=C:/ (or some other sensible value) to the end of the target in
the shortcut used to launch R will circumvent this.  (There are more
details in the rw-FAQ on how to set environment variables.)


On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Søren Højsgaard wrote:

> Dear all,
> One of my students have installed R1.9.0 on windows, and gets the fatal error
>     'invalid HOMEDRIVE'
> Can anyone help her/me out on that one?
> Thanks in advance 
> Søren Højsgaard

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