[R] Slight misinformation in OSX version of R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 25/09/2013 22:29, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 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:

Not 'well known' (sic) at all: most of us do not break our OS X.  We 
don't have reproduction instructions (see the posting guide), but I bet 
this is from R.app and not R (see below).  R.app is a separate project 
with separate maintainers.

>> 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 .)

But actually R-sig-mac for issues with R.app: see the posting guide.  (I 
don't think it is the docs which need fixing, but R.app itself. And that 
string is translated, so the translations need changing too.)


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