David, Erik, Uwe, Peter Thanks to everyone. I found .Rdata (it was hidden) deleted it and all is well. P.S. The suggestion to launch R from the command line with the --vanilla option allowed the program to start, but it did not solve the problem of launching from start>all programs>R
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)>>> Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 12/2/2009 5:12 PM >>> John Sorkin wrote: > I delete my R directory, and searched for and file of the form .RData, I > don't have any. I re-installed R. my problem persists. Any suggestions? You do have it. Otherwise R would not give that error message. Please take a look in the directory that is used as the working directory of R. Note that files beginning with a dot are not visible in the Windows Explorer by default and may not be found with Windows search in default settings. Best wishes, Uwe Ligges > John > > > > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)>>> David > Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> 12/2/2009 4:40 PM >>> > Corrupted datasets have been a fairly commonly observed cause of such > problems. Correction is through deletion (or removal to a different > directory if you want to check without committing to that solution) of > the offending .Rdata file. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.