You haven't given us the 'minimal information' the posting guide asks for. Let's guess you are using a Chinese locale on Windows, in which case you cannot use readChar to read non-ASCII data (as the message says).
If so, it looks like this occurs when loading a saved workspace, and is just a warning that will not be important if the workspace is properly saved. On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, ronggui wrote: > It is from R-2.6.2. > > On 2/9/08, ronggui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> During startup - Warning message: >> In readChar(con, 5) : can only read in bytes in a non-UTF-8 MBCS locale >>> >> >> I don't know what it comes from. It seems like a error thought not a fatal >> one. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> HUANG Ronggui >> >> Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China >> >> Master of sociology, Fudan University, China >> >> Ph.D. Student , CityU of HK, >> http://www.cityu.edu.hk/sa/psa_web2006/students/rdegree/huangronggui.html >> > > > -- > HUANG Ronggui > > Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China > > Master of sociology, Fudan University, China > > Ph.D. Student , CityU of HK, > http://www.cityu.edu.hk/sa/psa_web2006/students/rdegree/huangronggui.html > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ 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.