Hello, I hope someone can advise me on how to get R running on my Windows PC again. I uninstalled R2.8.1, and also the previous version 2.8 that were on my hard drive. I reinstalled 2.8.1, but when I started the program, the message below came up, and R shut down. "Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .Rdata" I uninstalled and reinstalled 2.8.1, but same results. Then I uninstalled 2.8.1 and downloaded the 2.9 beta version. Still the same fatal error message. Any advice on how I can rectify whatever I did to wreck R? thanks, Paul
________________________________ From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Thu 4/9/2009 2:40 PM To: Prew, Paul Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Error in saveLog(currentLogFileName On Apr 9, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Prew, Paul wrote: > David, thank you for your helpful reply. > > a) The sessionInfo goof is actually kind of enlightening. I'm > assuming that the purpose of adding the "()" symbols is to tell R > that sessionInfo is a function to be invoked, and leaving "()" > empty says to use default arguments? Yes. Exactly. > > > b) In the R GUI, I end my session by using the menu File > Exit. A > dialog appears, asking, "Save workspace image?", and I choose Yes. > > In fact, I just did it and got a message, never seen this one before > > "Console not found. Error in structure(.External"dotTclObjv:,objv, > PACKAGE - "tcltk"), class = "tclObj"):[tcl]invalid command name ". > 6.1". I am not an expert in the Windows GUI, but as a former user of it, I would wonder if my installation of tcltk had gotten corrupted and would try to reinstall. Caveat: That advice could be worth what you paid for it. > > Closed that message, another similar message was behind it, but now > the command name was "17.1" > > c) yes, agreed --- John Fox has been helpful to me a couple of > times. I like the R Commander (it automatically adds those pesky > details like () that elude me), but I can't go the CRAN to get > packages from it, so I end up back at the GUI to install a package. > John has told me that moving back and forth between the GUI and > Commander is not how Commander was intended to be used. Perhaps > this practice has led to some of the present confusions. > > Let's say I save a script or history or similar file that I would > like to recall at a later time, > If I save the file using RCommander, should I only open the file > using R Commander? Ditto for R GUI? Regardless of which platform > I'm saving the files with, they seem to have some of the same > extensions, ".R", ".r", ".Rdata", etc. I doubt that would be necessary, assuming the scripts do not have function calls that depend on R Commander being around. Files with .r extensions are just text files by another name. I could not find a saveLog function with R-search restricted to functions but did find it as an argument to RCmdr. IIRC, RCmdr uses Tck/Tl extensively. -- David > > > Thanks, > Paul > > Paul Prew | Statistician > 651-795-5942 | fax 651-204-7504 > Ecolab Research Center | Mail Stop ESC-F4412-A > 655 Lone Oak Drive | Eagan, MN 55121-1560 > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:17 PM > To: Prew, Paul > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Error in saveLog(currentLogFileName > > This is just two suggestions and a guess. > > a) When you desire the information from sessionInfo ,you need to > type : > sessionInfo() # not sessionInfo > > ... results come from function calls and all you got was the > sessionInfo code produced by the implicit print function to which you > gave the argument sessionInfo. > > b) Tell us exactly the methods you used to save "my script", "my > workspace", "etc"? > > c) As a guess, you had the Zelig package loaded under R-Commander > yesterday but not today. The right person to ask this question of > might be one of those package maintainers. (John Fox is very good > about supporting R-Commander.) > > > David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: \ This e-mail communication an...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ 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.
