R 15.0 Warning message.

[Jinyan Huang]

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.

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[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 03/06/2012 07:34, Jinyan Huang wrote:

> 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?

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.

>
> Thanks.
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[Jinyan Huang]

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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
> LANG

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On 03/06/2012 09:27, Jinyan Huang wrote:
> Yes. I think it is my environment variables problem. But I donot know
> how to fix.

That is described in the same manual.

> echo $LC_ALL
>
> echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Prof Brian Ripley<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> LANG

No, that's not what I wrote.  The posting guide required you to quote
the context, and excising it is a breach of the conditions under which
you are allowed to copy the work of others.


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[Peter Dalgaard-2]

On Jun 3, 2012, at 10:27 , Jinyan Huang wrote:

> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> LANG

First, use "locale" to check that the above is the full story.

For finding the right locale, try starting R with, e.g.

LANG=en_US.utf8 R

or, for a more scientific approach, find your system locale database, usually /usr/share/locale, and look for a suitable name:

pd$ ls -ld /usr/share/locale/en_US*
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Sep 25  2010 /usr/share/locale/en_US
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Sep 25  2010 /usr/share/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Sep 25  2010 /usr/share/locale/en_US.ISO8859-15
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Sep 25  2010 /usr/share/locale/en_US.US-ASCII
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Sep 25  2010 /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8

so on a Mac like mine, en_US.UTF-8 should do just fine, but if you see .utf8, .UTF8, .utf-8, you'll have to adjust LANG accordingly.

For a permanent fix, edit the appropriate startup file for your shell, probably .profile, cor maybe .bash_profile or .bashrc.

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[Jinyan Huang]

locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


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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[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 03/06/2012 10:31, Jinyan Huang wrote:
> locale
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=
> LC_CTYPE=UTF-8

That's wrong: see the manual I pointed you to!

> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> ls -ld /usr/share/locale/en_US*
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 15 15:19 /usr/share/locale/en_US

This is clearly not an R issue: so ask your IT support for help.

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[Peter Dalgaard-2]

On Jun 3, 2012, at 11:36 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

>>
>> ls -ld /usr/share/locale/en_US*
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 15 15:19 /usr/share/locale/en_US
>
> 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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[Jinyan Huang]

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 <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> On Jun 3, 2012, at 11:36 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>>>
>>> ls -ld /usr/share/locale/en_US*
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 15 15:19 /usr/share/locale/en_US
>>
>> 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
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