[R] Symbol "£" crashs R in Win98

[Mark Myatt]

Haifeng (Kevin) Xie <H.F.Xie01 at westminster.ac.uk> writes:

[snip]

>R crashed (illegal operation). Then I realised that: R will crash whenever 
>the "£" symbol is typed. I'm using Microsoft Windows 98 SE, all settings 
>regarding keyboard layout, regional setting are correct. The very same 
>codes were trouble free when tried on a Linux box. 
>
>Did anybody encounter similar problem? Is this problem only associated to 
>Win98 or MS Windows in general? Any way around? Well, I could have changed 
>to "$" instead of sticking to "£". 

I think you will find that any high (i.e. > decimal 127) ASCII
character. This is an example of DLL hell that can plague with Windows
installations. It is due to an errant version of the file msvcrt.dll.
This has been covered in the FAQ that installs with R. I got round the
problem by copying this file from another PC but you should be able to
get a copy from the MicroSoft web site. Before copying over the existing
file make a backup in case you find that your new version impacts on
other applications.

Mark


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