[R] Problem with r project in ubuntu xenial

[David Winsemius]

> On Nov 3, 2017, at 5:09 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 3 Nov 2017, at 23:39 , George Balas <gbalas07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a problem with R in Ubuntu 16.04. I do not know if it is mine pc or
>> general problem but I was not able to find solution on Internet.
>> First of all I can not change locale to greek by getting this message:
>> "In Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Greek") :
>> OS reports request to set locale to "Greek" cannot be honored"
> 
> The Greek locale is likely not called "Greek" outside of Windows. More likely "el_GR.UTF-8" or thereabouts (check your locale database, I'm on a Mac). These things are not standardized across platforms.
> 

Also

From help(locales): Attempts to change the character set by Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE") that implies a different character set during a session may not work and are likely to lead to some confusion because it may not affect the native encoding.


>> Second and more serious is that I can not use some functions like
>> graph_from_adjacency_matrix or print_all I get these messeges:
>> "could not find function "graph_from_adjacency_matrix""
>> "could not find function "print_all"".
> 
> Missing library(igraph)?
> 
> -pd
> 
>> I am using R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) -- "Short Summer" either on rstudio
>> or ubuntu terminal.
>> On my pc I also run win 10 with the same installs and I do not have the
>> above problems, but I work on ubuntu and can not change Os all the time.
>> Please help me.
>> 
>> Thank you for your time,
>> George
>> gbalas07 at gmail.com
>> 
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David Winsemius
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