[R] postscript() filenames with forward slashes cause abort

[Waichler, Scott R]

My newly installed R-2.1.0 apparently doesn't like forward slashes in
filenames:

> R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18"
> plotfile <- "\home\mean_monthly_stl.eps"
> postscript(plotfile)
> plotfile <- "/home/mean_monthly_stl.eps"
> postscript(plotfile)
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x098e7180 ***
Abort

Does this have something to do with UTF-8 (about which I know little)?

Scott Waichler
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
scott.waichler at pnl.gov