[Rd] scan() crash in Windows 98 (PR#3234)

[Uwe Ligges]

Simon.Fear at synequanon.com wrote:

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> scan() (and so also of course read.table, read.csv etc) crashes right
> out of
> R (GUI)
> if it encounters non-ASCII characters (my particular example was a
> superscript 2
> which is OK in MS applications (even in Notepad this is OK: BMI*
> (kg/m?)).

... and also OK in R (patched) for non-DOS-based Microsoft Operating 
Systems, like WinNT 4.0, hence difficult to debug
(unless Duncan has still a Win9x machine running?).

Uwe Ligges


> For example
> 
> read.csv("d:\\table03.csv",colClasses="character")
> 
> generates
> 
> "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down
> ..."
> 
> and the details says
> 
> RGUI caused an invalid page fault in
> module R.DLL at 0167:004f3b67.
> Registers:
> EAX=0098007a CS=0167 EIP=004f3b67 EFLGS=00010246
> EBX=01d97e92 SS=016f ESP=0096e140 EBP=0096e158
> ECX=ffffffb2 DS=016f ESI=0000000a FS=3baf
> EDX=01fbd5b2 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> 66 8b 04 48 25 57 01 00 00 25 ff ff 00 00 eb 9f 
> Stack dump:
> 000c0000 00000001 00966000 00000013 0000000b 00000000 0096e188 0048dd2f
> 01d97e88 00000000 01fbd5cc 01fbd5cc 000c0000 00000004 0000000d 00000001 
> 
> which certainly meeans nothing at all to me!
> 
> Simon Fear
> 
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> Version:
>  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>  arch = i386
>  os = mingw32
>  system = i386, mingw32
>  status = 
>  major = 1
>  minor = 7.0
>  year = 2003
>  month = 04
>  day = 16
>  language = R
> 
> Windows 98 SE 4.10 (build 2222)  A 
> 
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva,
> package:modreg,
> package:nls, package:ts, Autoloads, package:base
>  
> 
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