On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Sarosh Jamal wrote: > I've been getting the following warning on each package update/install (Rv2.4 > on SunOS9):
Each? This only applies to a few packages, and is only a warning. > Warning message: > 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible. > > This was the case on R2.3 and now on R2.4 as well - any insight would be much > appreciated. Most likely you need to install libiconv and rebuild R: Solaris's (I think you mean Solaris 9 or SunOS 5.9) iconv is not adequate for recent versions of R (in particular, for UTF-8 locales or packages). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
