From bolker at ufl.edu  Fri May 15 23:24:02 2009
From: bolker at ufl.edu (Ben Bolker)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:24:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04
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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> Thank you, included in R-patched and R-devel now.
> 

[snip]

 thanks!



> I do wonder sometimes if people who only work with data in ASCII or in 
> a Western European language covered by Latin-1 realize the extent of 
> the overhead that using a UTF-8 locale implies, especially for the X11 
> functionality.  I still use a Latin-1 locale on Linux much of the 
> time.  There are a lot of optimizations in the R code for ASCII-only 
> data, but rather fewer in the I/O areas.
> 

Speaking for myself, I certainly don't -- but even as a fairly long-time
Linux user it
would rarely occur to me to change the default locale set by my OS for the
purposes
of working with R (maybe it will now) ...

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[Rd] View() crashy on Ubuntu 9.04
Ben Bolker