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The report on R_help about problems loading package irr (in a UTF-8 locale, it seemed) prompted me to look a little deeper. There are quite a few packages with Latin-1 chars in their .R files, and a couple in UTF-8. Apart from non-ASCII chars in comments, this is a problem as the code concerned cannot be represented in some locales R runs in (for example Japanese on Windows). It happens