R help - Apr 2008 - Problems with Windows RGUI R-2.7.0 when PATH includes 'æ'

I have a subdirectory named 'Fælles Filer' in my PATH.  When I start the
RGUI, I receive the following error/warning messages:

Error in Sys.setenv(PATH = PATH) : invalid input in wtransChar

and

Warning message:
package "methods" in options("defaultPackages") was not
found

The problems disappear, when I change the the subdirectory name to its short
version, 'FLLES~1' in the PATH specification in the Windows setup.

regards

Erik Jørgensen
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
University of Aarhus, Denmark






platform       i386-pc-mingw32
arch           i386
os             mingw32
system         i386, mingw32
status
major          2
minor          7.0
year           2008
month          04
day            22
svn rev        45424
language       R
version.string R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)

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Your email was not properly encoded by the time it reached me (see the ? 
in crucial places), so I may be missing something.

I am guessing you are in a Danish locale with codepage CP1252, and 
fortunately the subject line appears to have worked.  I think I have a 
reproduction test, in which case this will be fixed in R-patched shortly 
(but please test that for us).

No one reported this in the alpha/beta/RC test period, and we do know that 
the Japanese did some testing of the new features.  I guess that real 
testing started yesterday ....

Thanks for the report -- if you find further misfeatures it would be 
helpful to have the locale and an email in a marked encoding.

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Erik J?rgensen wrote:
> I have a subdirectory named 'F?lles Filer' in my PATH.  When I
start the
> RGUI, I receive the following error/warning messages:
>
> Error in Sys.setenv(PATH = PATH) : invalid input in wtransChar
>
> and
>
> Warning message:
> package "methods" in options("defaultPackages") was not
found
>
> The problems disappear, when I change the the subdirectory name to its
short
> version, 'FLLES~1' in the PATH specification in the Windows setup.
>
> regards
>
> Erik J?rgensen
> Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
> University of Aarhus, Denmark
>
>
>
>
>
>
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> arch           i386
> os             mingw32
> system         i386, mingw32
> status
> major          2
> minor          7.0
> year           2008
> month          04
> day            22
> svn rev        45424
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>
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