Oops, you already seem to have done this! My bad. -- Bert
Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:36 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might try posting this on r-sig-mac if you don't get resolution here. > > -- Bert > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:55 AM bretschr <brets...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> 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-h...@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. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
