R devel - May 2008 - Unable to restore saved data in .RData (PR#11455)

Full_Name: Eric Wong
Version: 2.7
OS: Windows XP SP2
Submission from: (NULL) (203.198.252.239)


I installed R software version 2.7 onto my computer (Windows XP SP2 English).
The installation was smooth without problem. 

However, R program crashed with the following error message:

  Error in file.exists(name) : unsupported conversion in
'filenameToWchar'
  Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData

Can anyone provide a remedy to this? Many thanks in advance. Cheers.

Sorry, there is nothing to reproduce here.

The pertinent error message is not the one you quote in your subject line 
but

Error in file.exists(name) : unsupported conversion in 'filenameToWchar'

At face value that means that iconv does not know about your locale.
That's possible, but it does know about 'English'.  If you can start
R at
all, what does Sys.getlocale() give?

See what happens if you add LC_ALL=en to the target on the shortcut you 
use to start R.  That should force use of American English (it does for 
me).

It's a long shot, but if that fails can you please try R-patched, binaries 
available from

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html

If the real error is something earlier, this might have solved it.


On Tue, 13 May 2008, ericwong001 at gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Eric Wong
> Version: 2.7
I presume you mean 2.7.0?
> OS: Windows XP SP2
> Submission from: (NULL) (203.198.252.239)
>
>
> I installed R software version 2.7 onto my computer (Windows XP SP2
English).
> The installation was smooth without problem.
>
> However, R program crashed with the following error message:
>
>  Error in file.exists(name) : unsupported conversion in
'filenameToWchar'
>  Fatal error: unable to restore saved data in .RData
>
> Can anyone provide a remedy to this? Many thanks in advance. Cheers.
>
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