Do look in the archives when this has come up tens of times. The usual cause is a bug in a Windows XP critical update: see
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/HOMEPATH.html Adding HOME=C:/ (or some other sensible value) to the end of the target in the shortcut used to launch R will circumvent this. (There are more details in the rw-FAQ on how to set environment variables.) On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, S�ren H�jsgaard wrote: > Dear all, > One of my students have installed R1.9.0 on windows, and gets the fatal error > 'invalid HOMEDRIVE' > Can anyone help her/me out on that one? > Thanks in advance > S�ren H�jsgaard -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
