R help - Feb 2003 - R 1.6 crashes if ² in object displayed on console

Dear R-help,

Under Win98se, the mere presence of this character, ² (Alt+0178), causes R 
1.6 to crash, but only when it is in an object displayed to the console.
>x<-"²"   #no problem
>x
R crashes with Illegal operation message

graham lawrence

> Under Win98se, the mere presence of this character, ? (Alt+0178), causes R 
> 1.6 to crash, but only when it is in an object displayed to the console.
> 
> >x<-"?"   #no problem
> >x
> 
> R crashes with Illegal operation message
Well, there never was "R 1.6". Do you use 1.6.0, 1.6.1 or 1.6.2? 

For what's it worth, R 1.6.2 on NT4 is happy to show ALT+0178.

Dirk

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This is covered in the rw-FAQ, and is a bug in some (obselete and
unsupported by Microsoft) versions of Windows.

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, David Orlovich wrote:
> No problem on a Mac running X11 (the best platform ;)
The comparison should be with MacOS ca 1995, which I think runs neither
R nor X11.
> [David-Orlovichs-Computer:~] orlovich% /usr/local/bin/R
> 
> R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
> Version 1.6.2 Patched (2003-01-23)
> 
> <snip>
> 
>  > x<-"?"
>  > x
> [1] "?"
>  >
> 
> On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:50 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> >>>> x<-"?"   #no problem
> 
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