Dennis,

Brian Ripley pointed out shortly after 3.4.2 was released that the timezone was 
not being set correctly because of last minute changes to MacOS. You will have 
to install 3.4.3. I am waiting for the native installer, which will likely be 
out within a few days.

Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
Data Scientist and Biomedical Statistical Consultant
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> On Nov 30, 2017, at 8:47 PM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote:
> 
> Mark
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.  I did a default installation of R.  Does this 
> mean that I need to reinstall from the command line?
> 
> Dennis
> 
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>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 6:42 PM, R. Mark Sharp <rmsh...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From Peter Dalgaard announcement earlier today.
>> 
>> 
>> CHANGES IN R 3.4.3:
>> 
>> INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
>> 
>>  * A workaround has been added for the changes in location of
>>    time-zone files in macOS 10.13 'High Sierra' and again in
>>    10.13.1, so the default time zone is deduced correctly from the
>>    system setting when R is configured with --with-internal-tzcode
>>    (the default on macOS).
>> 
>> R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
>> Data Scientist and Biomedical Statistical Consultant
>> 7526 Meadow Green St.
>> San Antonio, TX 78251
>> mobile: 210-218-2868
>> rmsh...@me.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Colleagues
>>> 
>>> I just installed 3.4.2 on a Mac running High Sierra.
>>> 
>>> I encountered the following:
>>> 
>>> R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) -- "Short Summer"
>>> Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
>>> 
>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>> 
>>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>> 
>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>> 
>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>> 
>>>> Sys.Date()
>>> [1] "2017-12-01"
>>> Warning message:
>>> In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(Sys.time()) :
>>> unknown timezone 'zone/tz/2017c.1.0/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles'
>>> 
>>> There is nothing odd about the date/time settings on the computer.
>>> 
>>> I then tried:
>>>> Sys.timezone()
>>> [1] NA
>>> 
>>> Previously, there was not a problem with timezones.
>>> 
>>> Can I override this?
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Dennis
>>> 
>>> Dennis Fisher MD
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