[R] Slight misinformation in OSX version of R

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 23:29:42 CEST 2013


Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth <at> univie.ac.at> writes:

> 
> I just installed R on a Mac without any traces of earlier versions.
> It exhibited a well know problem:
> 
> WARNING: You're using a non-UTF8 locale, therefore only ASCII
>  characters will work.
> Please read R for Mac OS X FAQ (see Help) section 9 and 
> adjust your system preferences accordingly.
> 
> The information needed is in section 7, not in section 9.
> 

  You should probably post this to r-devel, where it is slightly
more likely that an R-core member will see it and fix the docs.
(Small fixes like this are apparently preferred on R-devel to
in the R bug tracker .)



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