Re: [R] Error messages when start first time R: "You're using a non-UTF8 locale, therefore only ASCII characters will work."

On 14 Apr 2016, at 09:47 , Ole C. Brudvik wrote: > Hi! > I just started this course and just installed R and RStudio but I got this > warning/error messages when I open R and RStudio: > This is not a help list for any course... However, that particular issue is just

Re: [R] Error messages when start first time R: "You're using a non-UTF8 locale, therefore only ASCII characters will work."

1. These are warnings, not error. So you could just ignore them and proceed. 2. However, you may wish to go to the tools -->General menu in RStudio and set the default text encoding to UTF-8. I think that will get rid of the warnings. Happy R-ing. Please make use of R's docs and web resources

[R] Error messages when start first time R: "You're using a non-UTF8 locale, therefore only ASCII characters will work."

Hi! I just started this course and just installed R and RStudio but I got this warning/error messages when I open R and RStudio: During startup - Warning messages: 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 2: Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using "C" 3: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 4: Setting