Re: print("µ") crashes Rgui (PR#1914 )

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:25:39 +0100 (BST)


See the rw-FAQ, question 2.14.  Your example is fine on my XP machine.
This is a sign of a corrupt version of Windows, not an R problem.

If you must persist in filing reports on known problems, at least supply
new evidence.  The rw-FAQ shows you have to produce a useful post-mortem
dump.

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 RML27@cornell.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Ronnen Levinson
> Version: 1.5.1
> OS: Win98SE
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.3.13.116)
>
>
> Hi.
>
> It appears that any attempt to display the Greek letter mu (µ) crashes Rgui.
> The letter µ was part of a string read from a text file (entered as ALT-0181).
> My problem is that R crashes when I try to print the line from the file that
> contains
> this character.
>
> Try, for example, print("µ").

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