[R] help.search warning?

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Aug 12 07:47:43 CEST 2008


On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Dong-hyun Oh wrote:

> Dear useRs,
>
> When I executed help.search(), I got nothing other than the following warning 
> message.
>
> R> help.search("print")
> Error in help.search("print") :
> (converted from warning) removing all entries with invalid multi-byte 
> character data
>
> I am using Leopard 10.5.4 and R-2.7.1.
>
> How to solve the above problem?

Remove the packages which have non-UTF-8 data.  But why did you convert a 
warning to an error?

There are some (CRAN and other) packages which do not have correct 
declarations for their encoding, and this causes such warnings.

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