It looks like no one tested the beta of 2.1.0 for Windows in an East Asian or cyrillic locale. In most cases example() will fail there. If this is likely to affect you, please use R-patched instead. We really do need help from the users in the beta-test period, especially in languages not used by the core team. (Even the Chinese translator does not himself use R in Chinese.) So the beta testing is happening now: please give R-patched a thorough workout.
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