[R] Problem with starting and using R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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).

Maybe I have found this as a bug in iconv.  Please try a version of 
R-patched with svn revision 46507 or later.

>
> 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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>
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595