S corrupted?

["Fowler, Mark" <FowlerM@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Hello,
        I was running R (2.7.0) and S (7.0) concurrently, trying to optimize R/S versions of a function, and S crashed when I pasted a function revision into the commands window. I had R and S running together all last week without a problem. Today may have been the first time I started R before starting S. Anybody else run into this?

        After rebooting I started S alone, had no trouble pasting the function revision, but then encountered problems with previously working code that appear associated with timeDate. To illustrate:

#Fine.
> date()
[1] "Mon Jun 16 10:49:36 ADT 2008"

#Expecting date output.
> timeDate()
timeDate()
> timeDate(date())
[1] NA
> timeDate(date(),in.format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y")
[1] NA
> timeDate(date(),in.format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y",format="%Y %M %d")
[1] NA

Might this be fixable without re-installing or am I snookered?

Mark Fowler
Population Ecology Division
Bedford Inst of Oceanography
Dept Fisheries & Oceans
Dartmouth NS Canada
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