[R] error in calling source(): invalid multibyte character in parser

Luca Meyer lucam1968 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 19:08:33 CET 2011


It works fine, thanks. 
I was just wondering is there is anyway to include automatically the command you suggest as a default when I open R.
Thanks,
Luca

Il giorno 03/gen/2011, alle ore 08.36, Phil Spector ha scritto:

> Luca -
>   What happens why you type
> 
> Sys.setlocale('LC_ALL','C')
> 
>   before issuing the source command?
> 
> 					- Phil Spector
> 					 Statistical Computing Facility
> 					 Department of Statistics
> 					 UC Berkeley
> 					 spector a stat.berkeley.edu
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Luca Meyer wrote:
> 
>> Being italians when writing comments/instructions we use accented letters - like à, ò, è, etc.... when running R scripts using such characters I get and error saying:
>> 
>> invalid multibyte character in parser
>> 
>> I have been looking at the help and searched the r-help archives but I haven't find anything that I could intelligibly apply to my case.
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest a fix for this error?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Luca
>> 
>> Mr. Luca Meyer
>> www.lucameyer.com
>> IBM SPSS Statistics release 19.0.0
>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>> Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574) - kernel Darwin 10.5.0
>> 
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