I've never had any of these issues on linux machines, and have no idea where this is coming from. Loaded via a namespace (and not attached):Īny help would be much appreciated. stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit) I have no idea what's with all the extra `C/`'s, but I'd like to stick to US english UTF-8. I used to use `R` via homebrew but as I have heard there are issues with that route, I've uninstalled that and installed system `R` from cran (this doesn't appear to make any difference) From the session, I get the following locale info: None of the above resolved the problem, nor made any difference as far as I could tell. bash_profile/.bashrc/pretty much anything else I could think of ) export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' Easy One could also make an alias of it and put it on your desktop for easy future starts. Alternatively, one can find this file and icon in the GUI Finder, lead by the above result, and just double click on it, and it will open Terminal and a session with R running for you. (from terminal) $ defaults write force.LANG en_US.UTF-8 Entering and pressing return will start R from this version. (from within R) > Sys.setlocale('LC_ALL','English') So there's lots of things that I actually can't do now and to use R I guess I need to set the locale.īased on suggestions I've seen in other forums, I've tried the following: Which I guess I could ignore, but when I try to install packages I get this : tar: Failed to set default locale

I'm trying to run Rstudio, but whenever I start up I see these messages:

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