Whenever I start R (from the terminal), I get:
Error: object 'en' not found
This causes all kinds of problems, most notably that I cannot install packages:
> install.packages("rmarkdown")
Installing package into ‘/home/eric/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘backports’, ‘htmltools’, ‘base64enc’, ‘rprojroot’
trying URL 'https://ftp.cixug.es/CRAN/src/contrib/backports_1.1.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 10900 bytes (10 KB)
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downloaded 10 KB
trying URL 'https://ftp.cixug.es/CRAN/src/contrib/htmltools_0.3.6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 45408 bytes (44 KB)
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downloaded 44 KB
trying URL 'https://ftp.cixug.es/CRAN/src/contrib/base64enc_0.1-3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7833 bytes
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downloaded 7833 bytes
trying URL 'https://ftp.cixug.es/CRAN/src/contrib/rprojroot_1.3-2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 50414 bytes (49 KB)
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downloaded 49 KB
trying URL 'https://ftp.cixug.es/CRAN/src/contrib/rmarkdown_1.8.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2093181 bytes (2.0 MB)
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downloaded 2.0 MB
Error: object 'en' not found
Execution halted
Error: object 'en' not found
Execution halted
Error: object 'en' not found
Execution halted
Error: object 'en' not found
Execution halted
Error: object 'en' not found
Execution halted
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpjxEc33/downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("rmarkdown") :
installation of package ‘backports’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("rmarkdown") :
installation of package ‘htmltools’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("rmarkdown") :
installation of package ‘base64enc’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("rmarkdown") :
installation of package ‘rprojroot’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("rmarkdown") :
installation of package ‘rmarkdown’ had non-zero exit status
Edit: I initially thought that this could be a problem related to locale, but as per comments below, I had a look at the Rprofile.site and Renviron.site files. The
Error: object 'en' not found
was caused by "language = en" inserted into the Rprofile.site-file. It should have been in the Renviron.site-file instead. See also this post about locale issues in the console.
Thanks to the comments, it is clear that the
Error: object 'en' not found
was caused by "language = en" inserted into the Rprofile.site-file instead of in the Renviron.site-file instead. See also this post about locale issues in the console.