[R-SIG-Mac] Error on forcing change to utf-8 locale on R.app

[Prashanth NS]

Dear Simon, David and others,

Thanks. It is now working fine after running it in the shell.

Regards,
Prashanth


On 11/02/10 1:36 AM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 10, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Prashanth NS wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I am a new mac user and an inexperienced R user, now using the latter on the
>> former!
>> 
>> On running the R.app on my Macbook Pro with OS X Snowleopard, warnings about
>> non UTF-8 locale showed up.
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> As per the R for Mac OS X FAQ as well as this (
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-October/005395.html) post, I
>> ran the following in the app.
>> 
>>> defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
>>> Error: unexpected symbol in "defaults write"
>> 
>> Could somebody help with this?
>> 
> 
> You're supposed to paste that in the shell (Applications -> Utilities -
> Terminal) not in R.
> 
> In R you have to change that to
> system("defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8")
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
>