Strange locale problems in R after update to Mojave

[kevinushey]

Yes, you're right.

Regardless, there is a bug in Mojave where the locale is always reported with an en_ prefix, which RStudio was running afoul of.

This should hopefully be resolved in the latest daily builds (https://dailies.rstudio.com/), with RStudio v1.2.1030. We'll plan on backporting the patch to v1.1 if we can confirm it does indeed function as expected.

[bakaburg1]

But the odd locale is not in the list produced by running "locale -a" on terminal and the error is not present when running standalone R.
Another piece of information: when installing new packages I get this other warning: tar: Failed to set default locale. Again this warning do not appear in vanilla R.

[mara]

Is that still happening with the latest daily build (as Kevin suggests it should be fixed in there, above).

@kevinushey

This should hopefully be resolved in the latest daily builds (https://dailies.rstudio.com/ ), with RStudio v1.2.1030.

[bakaburg1]

Yep I confirm that the problem seems to be resolved after the update. Many thanks!

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[Henri]

Thanks all for this post !

I was hit by this problem a bit later so providing an update.

When I installed RStudio Desktop 1.1.463 the problem was solved.