Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809021320420.7941@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2008-09-02T12:24:43Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: installation problem on Window XP (PR#12658)
In-Reply-To: <20080902041008.7929B282EFF8@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>
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)
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