The patched version (r46512) solves the problem!!  Thanks!

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Thomas Lo <thom.lo@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Brian and Duncan,
>
> Many thanks for your responses.  Setting the 'Current format' in 'Regional
> and language options' under Control Panel to English (Singapore) solved the
> R usage problem for me.  I will have a go at R-patched build 46507 after it
> is released.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>   On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>> On 08/09/2008 6:56 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, something stopped the daily builds of R-patched on
>>> Saturday, and I haven't been in to the office yet to fix things.  So it's
>>> likely to be tomorrow before the Windows build of r46507 or later is
>>> available on CRAN.
>>>
>>
>> I only found r46507 this morning, as a side effect of something else.  So
>> it would not be in a build until tomorrow.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>> --
>>>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@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@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
>>
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