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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

>From the NEWS file for R-patchd:

BUG FIXES

     o	The parser sometimes accepted invalid quoted strings in a UTF-8
     	locale.

This is likely to be the issue, but we still don't have a reproducible 
example (see the posting guide).


On Sat, 3 May 2008, Mark Kimpel wrote:

> I have found the cause of the problem I am having with R-patched. In my
> .Rprofile I have a function that loads a bunch of my own functions, one
> of which contains the character "®". No other version of R I have used
> since writing this function ~2 yrs. ago has had a problem reading in this
> character, but apparently R-patched does (invalid multibyte character in
> mbcs_get_next at line 17).

That is a parser error message.

> Has something intentional or unintentional
> occured to cause this? I suspect unintentional since this would seem to
> be a loss of functionalilty unlikely to be introduced in a patch of a
> release.
> 
> Anyway, that's the issue, R-patched doesn't like "®".

I get

> "®"
[1] "®"

in R-patched in UTF-8.

> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>       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)
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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;L
> C_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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> Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
> Indiana University School of Medicine
> 
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595