[ESS] ESS question

[Michael Wolf]

On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:05, Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 01:51 +0800, Michael Wolf wrote:
> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] C
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.0.2 tools_3.0.2   
>> 
>> “locale” in a terminal window yields the following:
>> 
>> 
>> Air:~$ locale
>> LANG=
>> LC_COLLATE="C"
>> LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="C"
>> LC_MONETARY="C"
>> LC_NUMERIC="C"
>> LC_TIME="C"
>> LC_ALL=
>> 
>> Mac OS X is the very latest version, that is, 10.9.1.
>> 
>> I’ll be happy to upgrade ESS to version 13.09-1 and will let you know.
>> 
>> It’s just a mystery to me where this German thing popped up, since I
>> have everything running in English.
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Michael
> 
> Hi Michael:
> 
> I don't see anything obviously wrong.  However, I have very little
> experience outside of the LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 setting.  Hopefully,
> upgrading will just fix it.  Make sure that you keep ess-help in your 
> replies for posterity.
> 
> Rodney
> 

Hi Rodney,

I upgraded to ESS 13.09-1 and (just in case) also set the locale to en_US.ISO8859-1 explicitly before starting R.
But still the same problem.

Oh well, I actually speak German. Maybe ESS is trying to tell me something and I should just accept it.

Many thanks again,
Michael