[R] Problems saving the workspace image

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Erin Hodgess wrote:

> In Windows Vista, you have to "run as administrator".

Please don't: the point of not running as administrator is to protect you 
and your OS from rogue processes.  *If* you use a starting directory you 
own, there is no problem on Vista (for me, or many other Vista users).

>
> I ran into the same thing myself.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 5:46 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Ana Azevedo wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I use R with Windows for a long time. In the last week I change to Windows
>>> Vista. Now I can´t save the workspace image when I exit R. The system
>>> presents the following message "Unable to open .Rhistory". Does anyone can
>>> help me?
>>
>> Did you change the shortcut from which you run R to start in a user
>> directory, as advised in the rw-FAQ?
>>
>> Start R, run 'getwd()' and check it is a directory which you own.
>> If not, alter the shortcut until it is.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I thank you in advance,
>>>
>>> Ana
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>
>
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> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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