Hi all,
I'm looking for some help to understand if I'm missing anything.
I installed R 4.5.1 on Windows 11 (with Japanese locale), to a path that
includes Japanese characters: C:/??. I'm also explicitly setting the locale
using: Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "Japanese")
Here?s what I get from locale-related functions:
Sys.getlocale() returns:
LC_COLLATE=Japanese_Japan.932;
LC_CTYPE=Japanese_Japan.932;
LC_MONETARY=Japanese_Japan.932;
LC_NUMERIC=C;
LC_TIME=Japanese_Japan.932
l10n_info() returns:
$MBCS = TRUE
$UTF-8 = FALSE
$Latin-1 = FALSE
$codepage = 932
$system.codepage = 65001
>From this setup, I would expect that everything should work fine - the path
is compatible with code page 932, and locale settings appear to be
correctly applied.
However, when I try to install a package, I get this error:
install.packages("stringi")
Error: cannot open file 'C:/??/library/utils/R/utils.rdb': Illegal byte
sequence
Does anyone know what might be going wrong here?
P.S. I know that for that system I may use UTF-8 (e.g. Japanese.UTF-8), but
I *need to have* 932 for compatibility.
Best regards,
Roman.
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