[Bioc-devel] Warning message concerning encoding on pitt server

[Vincent Carey]

I don't think you have to worry about this.  The locale of the pitt
server will have to be set correctly to eliminate this warning.

FWIW I used

export LANG=en_US.US-ASCII

in .bashrc to get this out of my hair.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Andreas Mitterecker
<mitterecker at bioinf.jku.at> wrote:
> Dear mailing list,
>
> The CHECK report of the cn.farms package on the pitt server (Mac OS X
> Leopard (10.5.8) / i386) throws the warning:
> 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible
> (http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/cn.farms/pitt-checksrc.html)
>
> This problem occurs on the release branch (BioC 2.8) as well as on
> development branch (BioC 2.9).
> I first observed this warning without having changed anything in the package
> and there is definitely no 'Encoding' field in the DESCRIPTION file.
> I have also tried to change the encoding of the DESCRIPTION file, but this
> didn't help either. Furthermore I had the package tested on another Mac
> machine and the warning didn't show up. Therefore I suppose the this warning
> is quite specific for the pitt server.
>
> Furthermore the exact same warning message shows up on following
> Bioconductor packages:
> - charm
> - crlmm
> - frma
> - IsoGeneGUI
> - ITALICS
> - oligo
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you can provide,
>
> Andreas
>
> ----------------------------
> Andreas Mitterecker
> Johannes Kepler University
> Institute of Bioinformatics
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> 4040 Linz, Austria
> mitterecker at bioinf.jku.at
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