This is answered in the rw-FAQ, Q2.12! It is not a problem with R, but with your installation of Windows. *PLEASE* do not report FAQs as bugs: it a complete waste of the developers' time.
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 hb@maths.lth.se wrote:
Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: v1.4.0 (2001-12-19) OS: WinMe Submission from: (NULL) (217.208.14.137) When typing/pasting "£" (UK pound), "¤" (sun/star), "§" (paragraph), "½" (1/2 char) etc in the R Console window the RGui environment crashes. I noticed this first in R v1.4.0 (2001-12-19 by B. Ripley), but it also happens in R v1.3.1. The symbols above are on my keyboard which makes it easy crash R by mistake. I addition to typing and paste these symbols, I also tried to enter a few other characters by using Alt-NumKeys (http://www.asciitable.com/) and I found that several other symbols with ASCII >127 crash the RGui. Happy New Year and thanks Henrik Bengtsson -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.__._._._
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