Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> Thank you for your answer. >> I get a very strange path on my R.home(): >> " C:\\PROGRA~2\\R\\R-25~1.0" >> And the command >> readLines(C:\\PROGRA~2\\R\\R-25~1.0\etc\Rprofile.site) returns an Error (a >> syntax one, I triple checked the syntax...) >> Would you know what this means? > > The error is about the single backslashes (I used forward slashes, > because that's what R uses internally), and the lack of quotes. You > should try > > readLines("C:\\PROGRA~2\\R\\R-25~1.0/etc/Rprofile.site") > > However, I'm guessing based on your path that you're using R 2.5.x. > I'd upgrade to 2.6.1 if you can; it has had some things fixed to > deal with Vista. > There might be other problems: from her name and the paths she gave, she's probably brazilian or portuguese. Windows, in Portuguese, does a very stupid thing (not as stupid as spaces inside filenames, but a close second): it uses _accented_ characters in filenames and paths. And they are not standard. So there may be a filename conflict here.
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