On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:42 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Sam Steingold <s...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> >>> >> >> Check the example at the end of section 2 of the gsubfn vignette: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gsubfn/vignettes/gsubfn.pdf > > OK. I'm impressed. So I loaded gsubfn to do some self study and got: > >> require(gsubfn) > Loading required package: gsubfn > Loading required package: proto >> demo("gsubfn-si") > > > demo(gsubfn-si) > ---- ~~~~~~~~~ > > Type <Return> to start : > Error in source(available, echo = echo, max.deparse.length = Inf, > keep.source = TRUE) : > invalid multibyte character in parser at line 8 >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets > [7] methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] gsubfn_0.5-5 proto_0.3-8 rms_3.1-0 Hmisc_3.8-3 > [5] survival_2.36-2 sos_1.3-0 brew_1.0-4 lattice_0.19-13 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] cluster_1.13.2 grid_2.12.1 tools_2.12.1 >
I can't reproduce this on my Windows system. I assume its a character set issue associated with the Mac. What happens when you try this first (or some variation): Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","C") ? -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.