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...adding "encoding: utf8" to my information in databases.yml for this database. Now, magically, even though I still didn''t understand exactly what was going on---it displayed properly in my browser when fetched from the db, and then put in a view with <% =. But, now it displayed _incorrectly_ in console! Completely not understanding what was going on, I didn''t worry about it much, because after all, it was working. Until I needed to put such a string fetched from the db in a GET url parameter. So I add it to a hash, and call link_to. And an o with an acute accent (one single...

...not really surprising as seems to "unpack" file okay, but loses the >>temporary file. As the syntax of the file path for the temporary file is >>incorrect, I'm assuming this is a bug in install.packages or one of the >>functions it calls... > > > Since you _incorrectly_ assume that the syntax is incorrect, the rest of > your assumption is incorrect. As the FAQ asks, please don't speculate > about things you are not expert about, but stick to facts. Also as the > FAQ asks, don't misuse R-bugs for things you do not know _for sure_ are > bugs in R...

Full_Name: Heather Turner Version: 2.0.0 OS: Windows NT Submission from: (NULL) (137.205.8.2) I tried using the Packages menu to install the gam package and get the following output: > local({a <- CRAN.packages() + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a, dependencies=TRUE)}) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES' Content

In reference to the thread http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/04/10/0859.html I have the same problem updating packages with newly-installed version of released version of R 2.0.1. Previous posts refer to a bug in windows. I wonder if there is a work-around? This probably should go to R-help but it follows on from the post in R-devel. Apologies in advance. OS: Windows XP Professional,