[R-SIG-Mac] bug: locale not detected by R.app 2.7.2 ?

[Simon Urbanek]

Hugo,

this is not a bug - please follow the instructions as R is telling you:

"Please read R for Mac OS X FAQ (see Help) section 9 and adjust your  
system preferences accordingly."

And precisely for your setup that tells you:
"If you use a non-standard setup (e.g. different language than  
formats), you can override the auto-detection performed by setting  
force.LANG defaults setting, such as for example

defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
will enforce US-english setting regardless of the system setting.  
Please note that you must always use .UTF-8 version of the locale,  
otherwise R.app will not work properly."


Cheers,
Simon


On Oct 7, 2008, at 17:26 , Hugo Quené wrote:

> Dear Developers,
>
> After upgrading from R 2.6.2 to 2.7.2 on my MacBook I've run into an  
> annoying little problem (warning). It seems that the R.app interface  
> does not detect the proper system locale (international) settings,  
> whereas R in shell mode has no such problem, see the logs below.  
> This is irritating because I'm working with strings containing non- 
> ASCII characters.
>
>
> 1. Here's a log of R.app Console window:
>
> <BEGIN R.app log>
> R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> During startup - Warning messages:
> 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
> 2: Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using "C"
> 3: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
> 4: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
> 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.
> [Workspace restored from /Users/Hugo/.RData]
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> Making links in per-session dir ... done
> > system("echo $LC_CTYPE")
>
> > system("echo $LC_COLLATE")
>
> > system("echo $LC_TIME")
>
> > system("echo $LC_MESSAGES")
>
> > Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "C"
> <END R.app log>
>
>
>
> 2. Here's a log from R called from within a shell (Terminal):
>
> <BEGIN R shell log>
> Unknown-00-1e-52-82-78-89:~ Hugo$ R
>
> R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>  Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
>
> > system("echo $LC_CTYPE")
> UTF-8
> > Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C"
> >
> <END R shell log>
>
>
> 3. Settings
>
> I've read the R for Mac OS X FAQ (see Help) section 9.
> My settings are customized, i.e. a mix of US and European  
> conventions for Language and Format. Hence I'm not strictly  
> following one country setting. Nor do I want to.
>
> I'm using UTF-8 systemwide however.
>
> Unknown-00-1e-52-82-78-89:~ Hugo$ sw_vers
> ProductName:	Mac OS X
> ProductVersion:	10.5.5
> BuildVersion:	9F33
>
> In the above cases R was run from my user home directory ~.
>
> If you can provide some insights about the cause of this problem,  
> and possible remedies, I'd be delighted to hear!
>
> Many thanks for your assistance, with kind regards,
>
> Hugo Quené
>
>
>
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