[R] Re: [R] RE: [R] R 1.6 crashes if ² in object displayed on console

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is covered in the rw-FAQ, and is a bug in some (obselete and
unsupported by Microsoft) versions of Windows.

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Orlovich wrote:

> No problem on a Mac running X11 (the best platform ;)

The comparison should be with MacOS ca 1995, which I think runs neither
R nor X11.

> [David-Orlovichs-Computer:~] orlovich% /usr/local/bin/R
> 
> R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
> Version 1.6.2 Patched (2003-01-23)
> 
> <snip>
> 
>  > x<-"²"
>  > x
> [1] "²"
>  >
> 
> On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> >>>> x<-"²"   #no problem
> 
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