[R] File Encoding Warnings during package installs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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).

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