[R] Crash with R1.7.0 + Windows XP Professional

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:40:29 -0700, you wrote in message
<5.1.0.14.0.20030604103751.0238d090 at popmail.ucsd.edu>:

>Dear R-Help,
>
>I've had some problems installing the R 1.7.0 binary on Windows XP 
>Professional. If I launch R from the Start Menu or the Desktop, R crashes. 
>However, if I launch by double-clicking on an .RData file, R loads up just 
>fine. I've never had any problems with previous versions/OS. Has anyone 
>else encountered this problem?

It sounds to me as though it is trying to automatically load something
it doesn't like.  See the "Invoking R under Windows" section of the
"An Introduction to R" manual for the loading sequence, and try
playing around with options and/or deleting files to see if that fixes
it.  You can get to the extreme of loading nothing at all by using the
--vanilla option on the command line; if that crashes, then there's
some other problem.

The other piece of advice is to please try out the 1.7.1 beta.  This
might be a bug that has already been fixed.  You can get a recent
build from 

< http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel>

Duncan Murdoch