scan() crash in Windows 98 (PR#3234)
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:10:04 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:
# Your mailer is set to "none" (default on Windows), # hence we cannot send the bug report directly from R. # Please copy the bug report (after finishing it) to # your favorite email program and send it to # # r-bugs@r-project.org # ###################################################### scan() (and so also of course read.table, read.csv etc) crashes right out of R (GUI) if it encounters non-ASCII characters (my particular example was a superscript 2 which is OK in MS applications (even in Notepad this is OK: BMI* (kg/m?)).
This sounds like it might be related to the Windows FAQ 2.18, i.e. an MSVCRT.DLL bug, though I think those were with the keyboard handler, nothing to do with scan(). I'll be able to take a look next week on a Win98 machine, but not in time for the 1.7.1 release, unfortunately. Duncan Murdoch