[R-SIG-Mac] OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.utf8"...

[Marius Hofert]

Hi Simon,

... works *perfectly*, thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Marius

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>
>> On May 14, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working under Mac OS X 10.10.3 and installed R from source (see
>> below for more information). Hen compiling a package I receive a
>> warning about UTF-8 not being available:
>>
>> * checking package subdirectories ... OK
>> * checking R files for non-ASCII characters ... OK
>> * checking R files for syntax errors ... WARNING
>> Warning in Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "en_US.utf8") :
>>  OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.utf8" cannot be honored
>> * checking whether the package can be loaded ... OK
>> * checking whether the package can be loaded with stated dependencies ... OK
>> * checking whether the package can be unloaded cleanly ... OK
>>
>> I don't know any place where I call Sys.setlocale() and if I set the
>> locale to "C" in .Rprofile, I still receive the same message (and the
>> R admin manual is not very detailed about this case)
>>
>> How can I fix that? (Let me know if you need more information)
>>
>
> en_US.utf8 doesn’t exist on OS X - the corresponding locale name there is en_US.UTF-8
>
> You may want to set R_ENCODING_LOCALES to the values that are supported by your OS, this is what I’m using on the CRAN machine:
>
> R_ENCODING_LOCALES="latin1=en_US.ISO8859-1:latin2=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2:UTF-8=en_US.UTF-8"
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
>> Below is the output of sessionInfo().
>>
>> Thanks & cheers,
>> Marius
>>
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0 (64-bit)
>> Running under: OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.2.0 tools_3.2.0
>>>
>>
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