R devel - Sep 2008 - installation problem on Window XP (PR#12658)

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.

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.


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