[R] Problem with starting and using R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This reflects a problem in your locale (traditional Chinese): we cannot 
reproduce it.  Try running R in a different locale (e.g. append LC_ALL=en 
to the target when you start R).

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Thomas Lo wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I encountered a problem on starting and using the R v  2.7.2 installation on
> my PC running Windows Vista and would appreciate your help.
>
> When R was first started, the Rgui returned several error messages:
>
> Error in structure(.Internal(Sys.getenv(as.character(x),
> as.character(unset)$   unsupported conversion
> Error in file.exists(name) : unsupported conversion in 'filenameToWchar'
>
> In addition, a dialog box called 'Information' popped up with the following
> message:
>
> Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>
> On clicking 'OK', R closed immediately and the same thing occurs on
> restarting R.
>
> After checking for previous related messages online, I followed one of the
> recommendations from before and appended --no-restore-data to the R shorcut
> target line.  After that, R could start without the 'fatal error'.  However,
> some functions such as 'help' and 'setwd' do not work:
>
> e.g. >help()
> Error: could not find function "help"
>
>> setwd("DirName")
> Error in setwd("DirName") : unsupported conversion in 'filenameToWchar'
> I then typed 'Sys.getlocale()' and got this:
>
>> Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Traditional)_Hong Kong S.A.R..950;LC_CTYPE=Chinese
> (Traditional)_Hong Kong S.A.R..950;LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Traditional)_Hong
> Kong S.A.R..950;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Traditional)_Hong Kong
> S.A.R..950"
> Setting LC_ALL=en in the shortcut target does not appear to work in this
> case as I got
>
> During startup - Warning message:
> Setting LC_CTYPE=en failed
>
> Furthermore, I tried the patched version of R 2.7.2 and the same problem
> occurs.
>
> I would be very grateful if anybody could help.  Many thx.
>
> Thomas
>
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