[R] Problem with R on USB-drive

[jim holtman]

I run R off a flash drive.  I just copy the directory that it was
installed on my hard drive to the flash drive and things work fine.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed R on USB-drive, but when I run Rgui.exe from bin folder, I get
> this error:
>
> -----------------------
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
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>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> Error in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> logical.return = TRUE,  :
>  'stats' is not a valid installed package
>
>> var(1:10)
> Error: could not find function "var"
> ----------------------------
>
> So it seems that stats package is not loaded. How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Lauri
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Finnish_Finland.1252  LC_CTYPE=Finnish_Finland.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Finnish_Finland.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Finnish_Finland.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
>>
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