[Rd] CRAN packages maintained by you

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 10, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote:

>>>>>> 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).
>

Kurt, can you give me some pointers as of what/where this happens? I  
have never seen it happen before, because Macs usually have all  
locales installed, so I'm wondering if this is really something  
machine-specific or a bug ...

Thanks,
Simon


>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>> -- 
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>
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