[R-SIG-Mac] nchar error with R 2.6 on intel MacBook

[Paul Shannon]

Hello all,

I have encountered a puzzling problem with the latest R build
from  http://r.research.att.com/#nightly:  nchar does not work.


>> nchar('AT')
>>
>     Error in nchar("AT") :
>      2 arguments passed to .Internal(nchar) which requires 3
>
>

Here is my sessionInfo ()

>  sessionInfo ()
> R version 2.6.0 RC (2007-09-27 r43002)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] Biostrings_2.5.19
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.6.0
> >

I'll be grateful for any guidance you can offer.

Cheers,

  - Paul