[R] Problem with starting and using R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 08/09/2008 6:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> 
>>> This reflects a problem in your locale (traditional Chinese): we cannot 
>>> reproduce it.  Try running R in a different locale (e.g. append LC_ALL=en 
>>> to the target when you start R).
>> 
>> Maybe I have found this as a bug in iconv.  Please try a version of 
>> R-patched with svn revision 46507 or later.
>
> Unfortunately, something stopped the daily builds of R-patched on Saturday, 
> and I haven't been in to the office yet to fix things.  So it's likely to be 
> tomorrow before the Windows build of r46507 or later is available on CRAN.

I only found r46507 this morning, as a side effect of something else.  So 
it would not be in a build until tomorrow.


>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> 
>>> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Thomas Lo wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> I encountered a problem on starting and using the R v  2.7.2 installation 
>>>> on
>>>> my PC running Windows Vista and would appreciate your help.
>>>> 
>>>> When R was first started, the Rgui returned several error messages:
>>>> 
>>>> Error in structure(.Internal(Sys.getenv(as.character(x),
>>>> as.character(unset)$   unsupported conversion
>>>> Error in file.exists(name) : unsupported conversion in 'filenameToWchar'
>>>> 
>>>> In addition, a dialog box called 'Information' popped up with the 
>>>> following
>>>> message:
>>>> 
>>>> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>>>> 
>>>> On clicking 'OK', R closed immediately and the same thing occurs on
>>>> restarting R.
>>>> 
>>>> After checking for previous related messages online, I followed one of 
>>>> the
>>>> recommendations from before and appended --no-restore-data to the R 
>>>> shorcut
>>>> target line.  After that, R could start without the 'fatal error'. 
>>>> However,
>>>> some functions such as 'help' and 'setwd' do not work:
>>>> 
>>>> e.g. >help()
>>>> Error: could not find function "help"
>>>> 
>>>>> setwd("DirName")
>>>> Error in setwd("DirName") : unsupported conversion in 'filenameToWchar'
>>>> I then typed 'Sys.getlocale()' and got this:
>>>> 
>>>>> Sys.getlocale()
>>>> [1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Traditional)_Hong Kong 
>>>> S.A.R..950;LC_CTYPE=Chinese
>>>> (Traditional)_Hong Kong S.A.R..950;LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Traditional)_Hong
>>>> Kong S.A.R..950;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Traditional)_Hong Kong
>>>> S.A.R..950"
>>>> Setting LC_ALL=en in the shortcut target does not appear to work in this
>>>> case as I got
>>>> 
>>>> During startup - Warning message:
>>>> Setting LC_CTYPE=en failed
>>>> 
>>>> Furthermore, I tried the patched version of R 2.7.2 and the same problem
>>>> occurs.
>>>> 
>>>> I would be very grateful if anybody could help.  Many thx.
>>>> 
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
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>>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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