Thanks for the response - yes, agreed - no point fixing it if it ain't broke
on the current release of R - I'll upgrade R on the target machine.
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:47:06 +0100
> From: "Laurent Gautier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Rpy] unicode woes, or joys...
> To: "RPy help, support and design discussion list"
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> 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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