On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:51 -0700, Phil Spector wrote: >> Rick - >> You didn't say what operating system you're using, but I suppose >> that it's UNIX-based, because you're using the tar.gz files. >> If this is the case, the problem can be resolved by setting the >> environmental variable LANG to an empty string. If you're currently >> just typing "R" at the shell prompt, try >> >> env LANG= R >> >> (notice that you're setting LANG to an empty string, not to "R"). >> If you have access to the script that's invoked when you type R, you >> could set the environmental variable there to make the change permanent.
This isn't really portable, but LANG=C is. >> - Phil Spector > > Thanks. That solves the problem but why is it necessary? (I'm using FC4 > and R version 2.3.0.) Presumably because the package author used non-ASCII text in his package. The problem is in file meancor.R, which contains R followed by the character 0xd8. As the posting guide advised in the first place, please take this up with the package maintainer. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
