Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
From the NEWS file for R-patchd:
BUG FIXES
o The parser sometimes accepted invalid quoted strings in a UTF-8
locale.
This is likely to be the issue, but we still don't have a reproducible
example (see the posting guide).
As Brian probably already knows, the issue is likely to be that your
source file is in a non-UTF-8 encoding. (Emacs has become a little too
smooth in handling such files almost invisibly. The magic incantation is
C-x RET f utf-8
before saving.)
It can be reproduces as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat > xxx.R
"æøå"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ iconv -t latin1 xxx.R > xxxx.R
and then R-patched gives
> source("~/xxxx.R")
Error in source("~/xxxx.R") :
invalid multibyte character in mbcs_get_next at line 1
whereas R-2.6.2 gives
> source("xxxx.R")
> .Last.value
$value
[1] "\xe6\xf8\xe5"
$visible
[1] TRUE
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote:
I have found the cause of the problem I am having with R-patched. In my
.Rprofile I have a function that loads a bunch of my own functions, one
of which contains the character "®". No other version of R I have used
since writing this function ~2 yrs. ago has had a problem reading in
this
character, but apparently R-patched does (invalid multibyte character in
mbcs_get_next at line 17).
That is a parser error message.
Has something intentional or unintentional
occured to cause this? I suspect unintentional since this would seem to
be a loss of functionalilty unlikely to be introduced in a patch of a
release.
Anyway, that's the issue, R-patched doesn't like "®".
I get
"®"
[1] "®"
in R-patched in UTF-8.
Mark
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote:
Just installed the latest R-patched and get the
error seen at the end of the
output below. Don't know what to make of this but
thought I should report
it.
Nor do we. You have something incorrect in your startup files, but
we don't have those.
In general, when installing the latest version of R,
should one use
R-latest or R-patched? R-latest is stable, but one
would assume that
R-patched includes the latest bug fixes.
And you terminolgy is from where? (Not e.g. the R FAQ.)
Mark
mkimpel-m90 ~/R_HOME/R-patched/R-build/bin: ./R
R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-02 r45591)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
Natural language support but running in an English locale
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
Loading required package: utils
[1] "packages do not need updated"
Error in source(source.files[i]) :
invalid multibyte character in mbcs_get_next at line 17
[Previously saved workspace restored]
sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-02 r45591)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_
MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;L
C_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods
base
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