[R] R 1.7.0 startup error: .addMethodFrom...

[Joel Kincaid]

I've had a similar problem that seems to be assoociated with two events 
(using 1.7.0 and win XP home sp1):
1. when using the update.packages() feature from the menu and having the 
system hang. subsequent attempts to start Rgui fail. (However, rterm 
will run -- )
2. or after any time Rgui is hung, there seems to be the *risk* that 
there  will be a problem with some aspect of the methods package. I 
posted a similar note last month but was unable to reproduce the problem 
on a consistent basis....

See the 6/4/03 message and reply from Duncan Murdoch about Win XP and 
crashes for a link to a developmental version  of R that (i'm assuming) 
is a latter version of R patched that seems to have eliminated this 
problem for me. (There was an earlier message that 1.7.1 was due to come 
out mid june --

hth
Joel Kincaid


The solution seems to be to download the pathced version of 1.7.0 from 
cran.

franklin at polisci.wisc.edu wrote:
> Does anyone know what could be causing the following error message on
> startup of R:
> 
> Error in .addMethodFrom(def,argName[1],class[1],fromClass) :
>   object "*tmp*" not found.
> 
> 
> I'm using R 1.7.0 and Windows 2000.
> 
> This happened shortly after I installed 1.7.0. Once it occurs, R freezes.
>>From then on R will always freeze with this error message.
> 
> I reinstalled 1.7.0 and it worked reliably for a couple of weeks or more,
> but now once more has this problem.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Charles
> 
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