Hi Brian and Duncan,
Many thanks for your responses. Setting the 'Current format' in 'Regional
and language options' under Control Panel to English (Singapore) solved the
R usage problem for me. I will have a go at R-patched build 46507 after it
is released.
Regards,
Thomas
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>>> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>>>
>>
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> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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