R devel - Apr 2007 - CRAN packages maintained by you

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 08:40 +0200, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> Dear maintainers of CRAN packages,
> 
> This concerns the packages
<snip />
> 
> And now keep the updates rolling in ...
Dear R Developers,

I was recently emailed by the CRAN maintainers about warnings for my two
packages, analog and cocorresp, that are on CRAN.

I have built both packages (the versions on CRAN plus new,
in-development versions) under R 2.4.1, R 2.5.0-alpha [r41095] and R
2.6.0 (on two separate machines, both of which run FC 5 linux) and
cannot replicate the error message that the Daily Check Summary page
quotes:

"checking R files for syntax errors ... WARNING
Warning in Sys.setlocale(category, locale) : 
OS reports request cannot be honored",

Which I get only for the R pre-release (r-prerel) on Linux ix86 and Mac
OS X ix86 versions.

I am actually at a loss as to what the problem might be. My packages
don't use Sys.setlocale() and I am not familiar enough with what this
function does to suggest why it might be causing a problem on the CRAN
servers.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing these
warnings or how I might track down the problem?

All the best,

G
> 
> Best
> -k
> 
> 
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I only see analogue (sic), but is this not related to the

Encoding: UTF-8

?  Debian is very fond of subdividing packages, and I suspect it is the 
standard glibc UTF-8 locale ("en_US.utf8") that is missing.  There is
an
override for such people, to set R_ENCODING_LOCALES, and looks like they 
have lost their setting.  Kurt had this working once, maybe on a different 
machine.


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 08:40 +0200, Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> Dear maintainers of CRAN packages,
>>
>> This concerns the packages
> <snip />
>>
>> And now keep the updates rolling in ...
>
> Dear R Developers,
>
> I was recently emailed by the CRAN maintainers about warnings for my two
> packages, analog and cocorresp, that are on CRAN.
>
> I have built both packages (the versions on CRAN plus new,
> in-development versions) under R 2.4.1, R 2.5.0-alpha [r41095] and R
> 2.6.0 (on two separate machines, both of which run FC 5 linux) and
> cannot replicate the error message that the Daily Check Summary page
> quotes:
>
> "checking R files for syntax errors ... WARNING
> Warning in Sys.setlocale(category, locale) :
> OS reports request cannot be honored",
>
> Which I get only for the R pre-release (r-prerel) on Linux ix86 and Mac
> OS X ix86 versions.
>
> I am actually at a loss as to what the problem might be. My packages
> don't use Sys.setlocale() and I am not familiar enough with what this
> function does to suggest why it might be causing a problem on the CRAN
> servers.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing these
> warnings or how I might track down the problem?
>
> All the best,
>
> G
>
>>
>> Best
>> -k
>>
>>
>
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