Many thanks, Prof Ripley. The "--without-internal-tzcode" option does
indeed resolve the problem.
Regards,
Jon
On 3 April 2014 13:38, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 03/04/2014 13:27, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing nothing of the sort with the nightly build of 3.1.0RC, also on
>> 10.9.2. This is a plain-vanilla Xcode+ancillaries build as per Simon's
>> instructions (I think):
>>
>> pd$ more config.site
>> r_arch=${r_arch:=x86_64}
>> CC="gcc -arch $r_arch"
>> CXX="g++ -arch $r_arch"
>> F77="gfortran -arch $r_arch"
>> FC="gfortran -arch $r_arch"
>> OBJC="gcc -arch $r_arch"
>> with_blas="-framework vecLib"
>> with_lapack=yes
>>
>> so either something is up specifically with gcc-4.8, or you managed to
>> hose your time zone data base somehow (/usr/share/zoneinfo, I suppose).
>>
>
> More likely the one shipping with R, since --with-internal-tzcode is the
> default on OS X [*]. Setting TZDIR incorrectly would do this:
>
> > Sys.time()
> [1] "2014-04-03 12:37:01 GMT"
> Warning messages:
> 1: In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'Europe/London'
> 2: In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'GMT'
> 3: In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'America/New_York'
>
> when I do that.
>
> You could try --without-internal-tzcode.
>
> [*] Although x86_64 OS X has a 64-bit time_t it seems to have a 32-bit
> time-zone database and so wraps around.
>
>
>
> - Peter D.
>>
>> On 03 Apr 2014, at 13:24 , Jon Clayden <jon.clay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, this issue persists in R-rc_2014-04-02_r65358.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24 March 2014 10:40, Jon Clayden <jon.clay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> As of the current R alpha release, I'm seeing timezone-related warnings
>>>> on
>>>> installing any package (including the recommended ones), which I haven't
>>>> seen before. For example,
>>>>
>>>> [~/Documents/Source/R-alpha]$ bin/R CMD INSTALL
>>>> ~/git/tractor/lib/reportr
>>>> * installing to library '/Users/jon/Documents/Source/R-alpha/library'
>>>> * installing *source* package 'reportr' ...
>>>> Warning in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'Europe/London'
>>>> Warning in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'GMT'
>>>> Warning in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) :
>>>> unknown timezone 'America/New_York'
>>>> Warning in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unknown timezone 'GMT'
>>>> Warning in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) :
>>>> unknown timezone 'America/New_York'
>>>> ** R
>>>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>>>> ** help
>>>> *** installing help indices
>>>> ** building package indices
>>>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>>>> * DONE (reportr)
>>>>
>>>> This is R-alpha r65266, built from source on OS X 10.9.2 using gcc
>>>> 4.8.2.
>>>> I ran configure with
>>>>
>>>> ./configure --with-blas="-framework Accelerate" --with-lapack
>>>> --with-system-zlib --enable-memory-profiling
>>>> --with-tcl-config=/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh
>>>> --with-tk-config=/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/tkConfig.sh
>>>> CC=gcc-4.8 CXX=g++-4.8 OBJC=clang F77=gfortran-4.8 FC=gfortran-4.8
>>>> CPPFLAGS="-D__ACCELERATE__" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -g -O2"
>>>> CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -g -O2" FFLAGS="-mtune=native -g -O2"
>>>> FCFLAGS="-mtune=native -g -O2"
>>>>
>>>> Session info is
>>>>
>>>> R version 3.1.0 alpha (2014-03-23 r65266)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>>
>>>> I see some related material in the NEWS, but no indication that these
>>>> warnings are expected. I hope this report is helpful.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>>
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