[R] issue with encoding in R-2.8.1 invalid multibyte character

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, we don't see what you see. but if ? was hex a7, the message is 
entirely correct.  If you want to enter that, use "\xa7".

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Wijffels, Jan wrote:

> Hi,
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> We recently switched from R2.7.0 to R2.8.1 but having problems tracking down this 'invalid multibyte character' encoding issue. Can someone point us how to solve this?
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>> sessionInfo()
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> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
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> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
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> locale:
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> 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;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
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> attached base packages:
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> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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>> print("?")
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> Error: invalid multibyte character in parser at line 1
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>> sessionInfo()
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> R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
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> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
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> locale:
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> 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;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
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> attached base packages:
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> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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>> print("?")
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> [1] "\xa7"
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> Thanks,
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> Jan Wijffels
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> Statistical Analyst
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> www.thomascook.be | +32 9 241 1709
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