I have found the cause of the problem I am having with R-patched. In my .Rprofile I have a function that loads a bunch of my own functions, one of which contains the character "(R)". No other version of R I have used since writing this function ~2 yrs. ago has had a problem reading in this character, but apparently R-patched does (invalid multibyte character in mbcs_get_next at line 17). Has something intentional or unintentional occured to cause this? I suspect unintentional since this would seem to be a loss of functionalilty unlikely to be introduced in a patch of a release.
Anyway, that's the issue, R-patched doesn't like "(R)". Mark On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote: > > Just installed the latest R-patched and get the error seen at the end of > > the > > output below. Don't know what to make of this but thought I should > > report > > it. > > > > Nor do we. You have something incorrect in your startup files, but we > don't have those. > > In general, when installing the latest version of R, should one use > > R-latest or R-patched? R-latest is stable, but one would assume that > > R-patched includes the latest bug fixes. > > > > And you terminolgy is from where? (Not e.g. the R FAQ.) > > Mark > > > > mkimpel-m90 ~/R_HOME/R-patched/R-build/bin: ./R > > > > R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-02 r45591) > > Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > > ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > > > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. > > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > > > > Natural language support but running in an English locale > > > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors. > > Type 'contributors()' for more information and > > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. > > > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or > > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. > > Type 'q()' to quit R. > > > > Loading required package: utils > > [1] "packages do not need updated" > > Error in source(source.files[i]) : > > invalid multibyte character in mbcs_get_next at line 17 > > [Previously saved workspace restored] > > > > sessionInfo() > > > > > R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-02 r45591) > > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > > > locale: > > > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base > > > > > > -- > > Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry > > Indiana University School of Medicine > > > > 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 > > > > (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail > > (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) > > > > ****************************************************************** > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) ****************************************************************** [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
