[R] Start problem

[Uwe Ligges]

Bjørn Økland wrote:

> I had a well-working R 1.7, however, today the programme did not start, and I recieved an error message.
> I have uninstalled the R 1.7, and then installed R 1.9.
> Still it does not start, giving the error message "Fatal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE".
> How can I get it to work?
> 
> Bjorn Okland
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Either try out r-patched or look in the R-help archives for the string 
"Fatal error: invalid HOMEDRIVE". There were several discussions (and 
hints for a workaround) about that bug introduced by Microsoft's 
security patch.

Uwe Ligges