[R] txtProgressBar strange behavior in R 2.12.0

[Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)]

I believe nobody has responded to far, so maybe this is not a wide-spread issue. However, I have also encountered this since upgrading to R 2.12.0 (Windows 7, 64-bit). In my simulations where I use txtProgressBar(), the problem usually disappears after the bar has progressed to a certain amount, but it's quite strange nonetheless. The characters that appear are gibberish and include some Asian symbols. Here is a screenshot:

http://www.wvbauer.com/screenshot.jpg

sessionInfo():

R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

No idea what could be causing this. 

Best,

-- 
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (43) 368-5248
Fax: +31 (43) 368-8689
Web: http://www.wvbauer.com


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> Subject: [R] txtProgressBar strange behavior in R 2.12.0
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am running R 2.12.0 (windows).
> 
> example(txtProgressBar)
> 
> gives me some funny screen output with all kinds of special characters
> appearing and disappearing. It's happening on two different mashines since
> vs. 2.12.0. Is this a known issue?
> 
> Best,
> Jalla
> 
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