[R] error in calling source(): invalid multibyte character in parser

[Phil Spector]

Luca -
    What happens why you type

Sys.setlocale('LC_ALL','C')

    before issuing the source command?

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Luca Meyer wrote:

> Being italians when writing comments/instructions we use accented letters - like à, ò, è, etc.... when running R scripts using such characters I get and error saying:
>
> invalid multibyte character in parser
>
> I have been looking at the help and searched the r-help archives but I haven't find anything that I could intelligibly apply to my case.
>
> Can anyone suggest a fix for this error?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
> Mr. Luca Meyer
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> IBM SPSS Statistics release 19.0.0
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