Well, that's enough to establish that it's a problem with your system, not with R.
What happens if you do: options(show.error.messages=TRUE) What is your sessionInfo() ? We need more information to be able to have any chance of helping. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, khadeeja ismail <haj...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > My version of R is not silent: > >> setwd("/notHere") > Error in base::setwd(dir) : cannot change working directory >> library(is notHere) > Error in library(notHere) : there is no package called 'notHere' > > > That is the exact problem. > If I type the above commands, R says nothing and just displays the prompt. >> setwd("/notHere") >> >> library(is notHere) >> > > ...and it is so annoying :\ > > Hajja > > > > > > > > > > Can you give the specific context in which you are using it. > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:54 AM, khadeeja ismail <haj...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> How can I get R to display error messages, for example, if I try to change >> to a non-existent directory or try to load a library that is not installed? >> Currently R is very silent. I did fix the problem once using 'options' >> (show.error.messages, I think), but id doesn't seem to be working any more, >> and R doesn't tell me if I have an error in my command. >> Please let me know how I can fix this. >> >> Regards, >> Hajja >> >> >> > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.