On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 06:50 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> capabilities("iconv") does work in R 2.8.1 on Window (for me and many,
> many otherss, as well as on the machine that ran 'make check'), so you
> have done something to your installation. Most likely you have
> somehow mixed it up with a much earliier version of R for which the
> error message would have been true. so if you have any uch version
> installed, please remove it. Then try starting R with --vanulla,
> since you may hav ebeen picking up libraries containing packages from
> earlier versions.
Mmmmm. Vanulla. Arggggghhhhaaaa....
S.
>
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Marcus, Jeffrey wrote:
>
> > I just installed R 2.8.1 on Windows XP. When I ran the "source" command,
> > I got the error:
> >
> > Error in capabilities("iconv") :
> > 1 argument passed to .Internal(capabilities) which requires 0
> >
> > I looked at the code for source and it indeed has a call to
> > capabilities("iconv")
> >
> > if (capabilities("iconv")) {
> > if (identical(encoding, "unknown")) {
> > enc <- utils::localeToCharset()
> > encoding <- enc[length(enc)]
> > }
> >
> >
> > So then I ran capabilities itself:
> >
> >
> >> capabilities("iconv")
> > Error in capabilities("iconv") :
> > 1 argument passed to .Internal(capabilities) which requires 0
> >
> > I made sure that I hadn't by accident aliased either "source" or
> > "capabilities" by doing
> > find("source")
> >
> > find ("capabilites")
> >
> > and both came back with package::base.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> That's only a partial test. searchpaths() will show where you loaded
> capabiliites() from.
>
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