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[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley writes:

> I only see analogue (sic), but is this not related to the
> Encoding: UTF-8

> ?  Debian is very fond of subdividing packages, and I suspect it is
> the standard glibc UTF-8 locale ("en_US.utf8") that is missing.  There
> is an override for such people, to set R_ENCODING_LOCALES, and looks
> like they have lost their setting.  Kurt had this working once, maybe
> on a different machine.

Seems that the machine running the prerel checks has no latin1 locales.
Will generate these (and in fact this time all possible ones).

Best
-k


> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Gavin Simpson wrote:

>> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 08:40 +0200, Kurt Hornik wrote:
>>> Dear maintainers of CRAN packages,
>>> 
>>> This concerns the packages
>> <snip />
>>> 
>>> And now keep the updates rolling in ...
>> 
>> Dear R Developers,
>> 
>> I was recently emailed by the CRAN maintainers about warnings for my two
>> packages, analog and cocorresp, that are on CRAN.
>> 
>> I have built both packages (the versions on CRAN plus new,
>> in-development versions) under R 2.4.1, R 2.5.0-alpha [r41095] and R
>> 2.6.0 (on two separate machines, both of which run FC 5 linux) and
>> cannot replicate the error message that the Daily Check Summary page
>> quotes:
>> 
>> "checking R files for syntax errors ... WARNING
>> Warning in Sys.setlocale(category, locale) :
>> OS reports request cannot be honored",
>> 
>> Which I get only for the R pre-release (r-prerel) on Linux ix86 and Mac
>> OS X ix86 versions.
>> 
>> I am actually at a loss as to what the problem might be. My packages
>> don't use Sys.setlocale() and I am not familiar enough with what this
>> function does to suggest why it might be causing a problem on the CRAN
>> servers.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing these
>> warnings or how I might track down the problem?
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> G
>> 
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> -k
>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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