[R] error with demo in gsubfn on Mac; Re: string parsing

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
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> Check the example at the end of section 2 of the gsubfn vignette:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gsubfn/vignettes/gsubfn.pdf

OK. I'm impressed. So I loaded gsubfn to do some self study and got:

 > require(gsubfn)
Loading required package: gsubfn
Loading required package: proto
 > demo("gsubfn-si")


	demo(gsubfn-si)
	---- ~~~~~~~~~

Type  <Return>	 to start :
Error in source(available, echo = echo, max.deparse.length = Inf,  
keep.source = TRUE) :
   invalid multibyte character in parser at line 8
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] gsubfn_0.5-5    proto_0.3-8     rms_3.1-0       Hmisc_3.8-3
[5] survival_2.36-2 sos_1.3-0       brew_1.0-4      lattice_0.19-13

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.13.2 grid_2.12.1    tools_2.12.1

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