There was also a bug in RPy's handling of unicode strings until 1.0,
so make sure you have a recent version of RPy as well.
-G
On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:47AM , Laurent Gautier wrote:
> 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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