installation problem on Window XP (PR#12658)
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, plleung at cuhk.edu.hk wrote:
Full_Name: Leung Pui Lam Version: 2.72 OS: Window XP Submission from: (NULL) (137.189.4.4) When I installed R2.72 (actually any version >2.62) on Window XP (Traditional Chinese), I found the following error Error in structure(.Internal(Sys.getenv(as.character(x), as.character(unset)$ unsupported conversion ... Error in file.exists(name) : unsuported conversion in 'filenameToWchar' and then an information window appers: Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData Can you help me to fix this installation problem? Thanks.
Not as a bug report. This is R reporting a problem with your Windows settings. We have seen similar reports before (only in Traditional Chinese), but cannot reproduce them -- R 2.7.x (sic) runs correctly for me when I set my Windows XP to Hong Kong/Traditional Chinese.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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