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OK when I click on the .RData file I get the screen above. Also when I start R from the desktop icon or from select if from programs I get the same result. The warning message is in focus and I can not move the focus to the GUI. When I either click to dismiss the message of click to close it the whole session shuts down. So I can not enter the commands you sugested into this corrupt version. However, when I click on the Canada.Rdata the R session starts and seems to function normally. Here are the results of the functions you requested. Not sure if they will help given that this version is workfing? > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > load("C:/path/to/file") Error in readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) : cannot open compressed file 'C:/path/to/file', probable reason 'No such file or directory' > > Sorry if I gave you the wrong information previously, just let me know what you want. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-won-t-start-keeps-crashing-tp3516829p3517669.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.