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Prof Brian Ripley writes:

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.

Seems that the machine running the prerel checks has no latin1  
locales.
Will generate these (and in fact this time all possible ones).

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

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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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