Crashes with unicode labels in plots was reported as a problem
with R-2.3 to R-2.5.
It appears fixed with the R-2.6.1 I have here.
As I agree that it would make sense to have this written somewhere
(like in a section about known problems), but the easiest fix seems to
update R.
Hoping this helps,
L.
2008/1/7, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Aha.
> I think I've just learned something interesting. It took me a while to
> figure out although everyone else may already know - pysqlite returns
> unicode strings from queries, which is not generally a problem - however,
> passing these directly as strings for titles and axes for plots in rpy is
> very bad for your sanity as it (at least in my hands) leads to (otherwise
> mysterious) segfaults - eg
>
> RHOME= /usr/local/lib64/R
> RVERSION= 2.4.1
> RVER= 2041
> RUSER= /home/rerla
> Loading Rpy version 2041 .. Done.
> Creating the R object 'r' .. Done
> Error: segfault from C stack overflow
> Segmentation fault
>
> For my setup, a liberal dash of ascii re-encoding such as:
> rslist = [x.encode('ascii') for x in rslist]
> seems to make the nasty segfaults go away and pretty R graphs appear in
> their place.
>
> Anyone know how to handle this in a general way?
>
> Lots of people probably want unicode in their R plot headers. But, I wonder
> how many people have been burned by this? Could be useful in the docs
> somewhere?
>
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