[Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?

Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:12:30 -0000

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> writes:

> users of other languages may want to have messages and variable names
> in their native language, and ASCII might not be enough for that.

Allowing for messages in non-ASCII encodings would probably be a good
idea, but I think allowing non-ASCII variable names is dangerous.

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Regards,
Bj?rn-Helge Mevik