[Rd] scan() crash in Windows 98 (PR#3234)

[Simon.Fear at synequanon.com]

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scan() (and so also of course read.table, read.csv etc) crashes right
out of
R (GUI)
if it encounters non-ASCII characters (my particular example was a
superscript 2
which is OK in MS applications (even in Notepad this is OK: BMI*
(kg/m²)).

For example

read.csv("d:\\table03.csv",colClasses="character")

generates

"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down
..."

and the details says

RGUI caused an invalid page fault in
module R.DLL at 0167:004f3b67.
Registers:
EAX=0098007a CS=0167 EIP=004f3b67 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=01d97e92 SS=016f ESP=0096e140 EBP=0096e158
ECX=ffffffb2 DS=016f ESI=0000000a FS=3baf
EDX=01fbd5b2 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 04 48 25 57 01 00 00 25 ff ff 00 00 eb 9f 
Stack dump:
000c0000 00000001 00966000 00000013 0000000b 00000000 0096e188 0048dd2f
01d97e88 00000000 01fbd5cc 01fbd5cc 000c0000 00000004 0000000d 00000001 

which certainly meeans nothing at all to me!

Simon Fear


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Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = i386
 os = mingw32
 system = i386, mingw32
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 7.0
 year = 2003
 month = 04
 day = 16
 language = R

Windows 98 SE 4.10 (build 2222)  A 

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva,
package:modreg,
package:nls, package:ts, Autoloads, package:base
 

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