Dear R-users,
Last week I installed R 3.5.2 on a new MacBook Air. I got error messages for the wrong locale (character set). And simple math proved not to work: Upon typing this, I got: > 2ˆ2 Error: unexpected input in "2À" > The character visible as a caret is apparently coded as something very different. Then I changed things according to the FAQ, chapter 7, (switching all settings to English), and executed the recommended line: defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8 The error messages disappeared, but the problem remained. A fresh install of R 3.5.2 also didn't help: Here its startup messages, then a line testing the caret: > R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo" > Copyright (C) 2018 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. > > [R.app GUI 1.70 (7612) x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0] > > [History restored from /Users/fb/.Rapp.history] > >> 2ˆ2 > Error: unexpected input in "2À" >> Does anyone know how to get R (R.app) to interpret a caret as a caret? Thanks in advance, Franklin Bretschneider Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
