From gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk  Wed Apr 11 00:51:30 2007
From: gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk (Gavin Simpson)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:51:30 +0100
Subject: [Rd] CRAN packages maintained by you
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Thank you Prof. Ripley for identifying the potential cause of the
warnings. From what Kurt says in his email, I can wait a little while
and see if the warnings for r-prerel go away in the future.

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:58 +0200, Kurt Hornik wrote:
> >>>>> Prof Brian Ripley writes:
> 
> > I only see analogue (sic), 

Yes, I confuse myself with these things; there is an analog() in that
package.

All the best,

G

> 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).
> 
> Best
> -k
> 
> 
> > 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
> >> <snip />
> >>> 
> >>> 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
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> 
> > -- 
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> > 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> 
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[Rd] CRAN packages maintained by you
Gavin Simpson