>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dirk Eddelbuettel >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:29 PM >To: graham lawrence; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [R] R 1.6 crashes if � in object displayed on console > >> graham lawrence wrote: >> >> Under Win98se, the mere presence of this character, � (Alt+0178), >> causes R >> 1.6 to crash, but only when it is in an object displayed to >the console. >> >> >x<-"�" #no problem >> >x >> >> R crashes with Illegal operation message > >Well, there never was "R 1.6". Do you use 1.6.0, 1.6.1 or 1.6.2? > >For what's it worth, R 1.6.2 on NT4 is happy to show ALT+0178. > >Dirk
The same using 1.6.2 under WinXP: > x <- "�" > x [1] "�" No crash. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
