I tried to open cGroupsGUI (and compareGroups alone) from the regular R console (mentioning Deducer just for the sake of completeness), it did not work (even "regular" compareGroups). However, I had updated R just before to version 3.2.3 (under Windows 7). Becoming quite desperate in the meantime because "regular" compareGroups would not work anymore (not recognizing the data though being in the correct directory), I deinstalled version 3.2.3 and reinstalled 3.2.2 (under which I had worked with "regular" compareGroups successfully).
And now, under 3.2.2, I can both work with cGroupsGUI and "regular" compareGroups successfully! (Though getting the warning message that compareGroups was built under 3.2.3)
So, the exact problem to developers and community is now -> "Is there a bug with compareGroups and R version 3.2.3 (when run under Windows 7)?"
Thanks a lot!