Yes, the file will be created in the current working directory and is probably
the reason for the error in 'dbInit'. This is a bit of a dumbo on my
part---thanks for copying me.
-roger
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I suspect you have a file permission problem, and noticed filehash has
> some bugs which would mask this. E.g. it does
>
> createDB1 <- function(dbName) {
> if(!hasWorkingFtell())
> stop("need working 'ftell()' to use 'DB1' format")
> if(!file.exists(dbName))
> file.create(dbName)
> else
> message(gettextf("database '%s' already exists", dbName))
> TRUE
> }
>
> and so fails to check that file.create succeeded, and calls message() on
> an already translated message without 'domain=NA'. (It also calls
> dir.create without checking the result.)
>
> As far as I can see filehash will try to create a file in the current
> working directory. Did you set up the shortcut as dscribed in the
> rw-FAQ so that the working directory was owned by you?
>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Davood Tofighi wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using filehash on the windows XP and it has been working fine with
>> the
>> newest R version 2.6.2. However, on the windows vista, when I ran the
>> same
>> code, I got the following error:
>>
>>> dbCreate("simdb") #create simdb database
>> [1] TRUE
>>> db<-dbInit("simdb") #initiate an object of database
>> Error in sprintf(gettext(fmt, domain = domain), ...) :
>> object "datafile" not found
>>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Davood
>>
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