[Rd] error with R-patched (2008-05-02 r45591)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 3 May 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote:

> Just installed the latest R-patched and get the error seen at the end of the
> output below. Don't know what to make of this but thought I should report
> it.

Nor do we.  You have something incorrect in your startup files, but we 
don't have those.

> In general, when installing the latest version of R, should one use
> R-latest or R-patched? R-latest is stable, but one would assume that
> R-patched includes the latest bug fixes.

And you terminolgy is from where?  (Not e.g. the R FAQ.)

> Mark
>
> mkimpel-m90 ~/R_HOME/R-patched/R-build/bin: ./R
>
> R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-02 r45591)
> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
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>
> Loading required package: utils
> [1] "packages do not need updated"
> Error in source(source.files[i]) :
>  invalid multibyte character in mbcs_get_next at line 17
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-02 r45591)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>
>
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