[R-SIG-Mac] HELP: R for Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks Malfunction

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 07/07/2014 15:12, Senyo Norgbey, MD wrote:
> On opening terminal.app, here is my equivalent below..
>
> Last login: Mon Jul  7 08:04:16 on console
>
> Senyo-Norgbeys-MacBook-Pro:~ sennorg$ locale
>
> LANG=
>
> LC_COLLATE="C"
>
> LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
>
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
>
> LC_MONETARY="C"
>
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
>
> LC_TIME="C"
>
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> Can you please provide me further instructions on how to
> proceed with my problem..??

Correct

LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"

That is simply not a locale name.  Given where you are, most likely you want

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

(assuming a bash shell).  But you might also want to find out what you 
did to your poor Mac to get these settings.

>
> Kind regards...
>
>
>
> *Senyo Norgbey, MD**MS Candidate '14*
>
> *Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, *
> *Division of Health Sciences Informatics,*
>
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>
> *(+1) 443-529-3519(+233) 24-335-5561*
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>
>
> *snorgbe1 at jhmi.edu <snorgbe1 at jhmi.edu>sennorg at gmail.com <sennorg at gmail.com>*
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Follow instructions in the MacOSX FAQ, section 7(!).
>>
>> (The "9" in the warning is a relic from an older FAQ document.)
>>
>> If you  need further guidance open up Terminal.app and tell us what is
>> your equivalent of
>>
>> Peters-iMac:R pd$ locale
>> LANG=
>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
>>
>> (i.e. just enter "locale" at the prompt)
>>
>> -pd
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