R help - Jul 1998 - R-beta: locale

To repeat, my problem was that the latest version of R broke my previously
effortless install. Now I get a list of warnings from perl

data                              text    html    latex
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "iso-8859-1",
        LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").


I have looked at 
man locale
and it tells me to look in /usr/lib/locale for my locale settings
which doesn't exist on Slackware 3.4.0.

So I guess I have to install a file there?  But with what contents?
Maybe someone with a US keyboard setup can just mail me his locale
file?

Maybe most of you have had no problems because you are using nonUS
keyboards etc already. I guess also that this is the first
"international"
version of R.

Thanks for any help!!

Bill

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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Bill Simpson wrote:
> To repeat, my problem was that the latest version of R broke my previously
> effortless install. Now I get a list of warnings from perl
> 
> data                              text    html    latex
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LC_CTYPE = "iso-8859-1",
>         LANG = (unset)
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> 
I have Slackware 3.1 and I have a directory locale under
/var/X11R6/lib.

Assuming you have your locale directory in the same place, try doing
something like:
ln -s /var/X11R6/lib/locale /usr/lib/locale

Otherwise see, if you have a locale directory somewhere else, do:
locate locale

If you can't find a locale directory anywhere, I suggest you
- either ignore those error messages from perl 
- or don't set variable LC_LOCAL (look into files /etc/profile,
 or .bash_profile, .bashrc in your home directory or whatever else you use
 as your Bash startup file.

I do not think this is an R installation problem. When I did not have my
locale directory in the right place, every Perl script came up with that
error message.

Ina

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