[R] Problems with "help.start()"

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The problem appears to be that you are in a UTF-8 locale and one of your 
packages is not written in UTF-8.

This exact problem is solved in R-patched, but some parts of help.start() 
will not work correctly with those packages.

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres wrote:

> I just install the new R version 2.1.0 in a
> linux platform.
>
> I get this error when I call the function
>
>> help.start()
> Making links in per-session dir ...
> Error in gsub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed) :
>        input string 28 is invalid in this locale
>
> What am I missing? (It works fine with version 2.0.1)

Well, UTF-8 locales did not `work fine' in 2.0.1.

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