That sounds as if you are running in a UTF-8 locale and your colleague is not. We do ask for the results of sessionInfo(), which would have helped.
I suggest you try an English 8-bit locale and see what happens. On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Maya Bercovich wrote: > Dear Sirs, > How can I revert to an older limma version? > Typing "install.packages("limma")" in R gives a list of mirrors. How > can I install the version I want after I obtain and untar the file (e.g, > limma_2.9.1.tar.gz)? > I am running R 2.5.0 on a Linux machine (CentOS 5). When using limma it > will not go past the read.maimages command. > I get this error: > Error in readGenericHeader(fullname, columns = columns, sep = sep) : > Specified column headings not found in file > In addition: Warning message: > input string 1 is invalid in this locale in: grep(pattern, x, > ignore.case, extended, value, fixed, useBytes) > I was told by a colleague that this may be due to my limma version. > I try to use limma 2.10.5 and he uses 2.9.1 > Could this be the reason? > Thanks in advance > Maya > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.