Scandinavian characters in rstudio

EEgge · June 14, 2022, 12:11pm

Hi,
I had the same problem as described here:

RStudio encoding UTC-8 scandinavian letters RStudio IDE

I recently installed the newest version of RStudio. In the new version it is not possible to run rmarkdown or quarto scripts with scandinavian letters like æ,ø and å. I have tried to use File > Reopen with encoding and also change the encoding in the RProject that contains the files. Example: d1 <- d %>% group_by(ansattnr, avdeling) %>% summarise(år_2019 = sum(år_2019, na.rm=TRUE), år_2020 = sum(år_2020, na.rm=TRUE), år_2021 = sum(år_2021, na.rm=TRUE)) %>% mutate(avdeling_kort = case_when(str_sub(avdeling,1,3) == "Akv" ~ "Akvakultur", str_sub(avdeling,1,3) == "Mar" ~ "Marine", str_sub(avdeling,1,3) =…

The fix for me was to type
Sys.setlocale(locale="no_NO") in the console (thanks to a helpful colleague).
Just in case someone is still struggling.
I dont know if this breaks something else, but at least i can work with my Norwegian coastal dataset again:)

ohjakobsen · June 14, 2022, 7:54pm

I have the same issue with RStudio 2022.02.3+492 and R 4.2.0 on Windows 10. Interestingly, RStudio sets the locale to C, while both RGui and R.exe sets the proper locale. I can solve the issue in RStudio by running Sys.setlocale(locale='no_NB.utf8') or Sys.setlocale(locale = 'Norwegian Bokmål_Norway'). This can also be added to ~/.Rprofile for a more permanent fix. Below is the result from sessionInfo() from R.exe and RStudio:

R.exe:

R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8
[2] LC_CTYPE=Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8
[3] LC_MONETARY=Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Norwegian Bokmål_Norway.utf8

RStudio:

R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19043)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] C

ohjakobsen · June 15, 2022, 6:47am

An update to this issue. When I opened an old RStudio project with an object that required a package I had not yet installed, RStudio reset the locale to C, even though I now have set the locale in my ~/.Rprofile file. As soon as I installed the package and restarted the R session (without restarting RStudio), sessionInfo() reported the expected locale. Could this isse be related to this old issue on GitHub: R locale automatically resets to the default one · Issue #9388 · rstudio/rstudio (github.com)?