R help - Jun 2012 - R 15.0 Warning message.

Dear list,

I have install R15.0 on Ubuntu system using the source code. It is
install to my home directory. I have no root privilege.  When I start
R, I got this warning message:

During startup - Warning message:
Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"

How can I fix this?

Thanks.

On 03/06/2012 07:34, Jinyan Huang wrote:
> Dear list,
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> I have install R15.0 on Ubuntu system using the source code. It is
> install to my home directory. I have no root privilege.  When I start
> R, I got this warning message:
>
> During startup - Warning message:
> Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
>
> How can I fix this?
You will need to ask once R 15.0 is released (sometime next century?).

But in a released version of R, the problem would be your locale 
settings, so study the manual at e.g. 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Internationalization

Since you managed to install it, something is different in your 
environment now from when you installed R.  Check your environment 
variables such as LC_ALL or LANG.  A guess is that you have .utf8 where 
.UTF-8 is required, or v.v.
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> Thanks.
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Yes. I think it is my environment variables problem. But I donot know
how to fix.

echo $LC_ALL

echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8


On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at
stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> LANG

At last, the administrator provide me this command to fix this problem.

echo "setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF8" >> ~/.cshrc.aliases



On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2012, at 11:36 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
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>>>
>>> ls -ld /usr/share/locale/en_US*
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 15 15:19 /usr/share/locale/en_US
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>> This is clearly not an R issue: so ask your IT support for help.
>
> Or check out the Ubuntu docs/forums for information on which package of
configuration trick you might be missing to get UTF-8 locales properly
installed. (Googling "utf-8 ubuntu" seem to come up with relevant
stuff.)
>
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> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
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