[R] Cannot load irr package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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.

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