Sorry, but IMHO saying "read the manual" does not constitute actual help.
But here it is from the manual: A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires iconv to be able to translate between "latin1" and "UTF-8", to recognize "" (as the current encoding) and "ASCII", and to translate to and from the Unicode wide-character formats "UCS-[24][BL]E" — this is true for glibc but not of most commercial Unixes. However, you can make use of GNU libiconv (possibly as a plug-in replacement: see http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/). Well, that's just what I did. I downloaded libiconv and compiled and linked it. Oh, so where to put it. Hmmmm, don't see it anywhere here. Do you? Also from the manual: /You will need GNU libiconv and readline: the Solaris version of iconv is not sufficiently powerful. For the Solaris Studio compilers a little juggling of paths was needed to ensure GNU libiconv (in /usr/local) was used rather than the Solaris iconv: CC="cc -xc99" CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee" F77=f95 FFLAGS=-O4 CXX="CC -library=stlport4" CXXFLAGS=-O FC=f95 FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS FCLIBS="-lfai -lfsu" R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/opt/csw/gcc4/lib:/opt/csw/lib" For a 64-bit target add -m64 to the compiler macros and use something like LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/sparcv9 or LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/amd64 as appropriate. / Well, I did that. Here are some of my options from the config.site: CC="cc" ## Debugging and optimization options for the C compiler. ## Use this to specify CFLAGS for the version of the C compiler ## specified above. ## If unspecified, defaults to '-g -O2' for gcc, ## and '-g' in all other cases except icc (for which see R-admin.html). #CFLAGS="-xlibmieee" CFLAGS="-xO5 -xc99 -xlibmieee -xlibmil -nofstore -xtarget=native -m64" FFLAGS="-xO5 -libmil -m64" ## Options for safe compilation under the FORTRAN 77 compiler. ## Use this to specify FFLAGS for the version of the compiler specified ## above, using as accurate a result as possible, e.g. no optimization ## or using -ffloat-store. SAFE_FFLAGS="-xO5 -libmil" CXX="CC -library=stlport4" ## Options for the C++ compiler. CXXFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -nofstore -features=tmplrefstatic" ## Any special flags which must be used when compiling C++ code to be ## turned into a shared object. If this variable is left unspecified ## an attempt is made to automatically detect the correct value. CXXPICFLAGS=-Kpic LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sunstudio12.1/lib/amd64 SHLIB_LDFLAGS=-shared SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-G SHLIB_FCLDFLAGS=-G ## The command to be used to load shared objects which contain object ## files from the C++ compiler. This is usually the C++ compiler/linker, ## but the automatic choice can be overridden by means of this ## variable. ## SHLIB_CXXLD= ## Any special flags which are required when creating shared objects ## containing object files from a C++ compiler. This is usually ## automatically detected by configure, and anything set here will be in ## addition unless SHLIB_CXXLD is given. ## SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS= ## FORTRAN 95 compiler: optional for use in packages. ## Analogous to the F77 and CXX settings. FC=f95 FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS FCPICFLAGS=-Kpic SHLIB_FCLD=${FC} ## Unlike SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS, SHLIB_FCLDFLAGS is never additional SHLIB_FCLDFLAGS=${SHLIB_LDFLAGS} ## Additional libraries needed to link a shared object, e.g. on x86 Solaris FCLIBS="-lfai -lfai2 -lfsu" ## Tcl/Tk settings. ## Use TCLTK_LIBS for all '-L' and '-l' options needed for linking ## against the Tcl and Tk library. ## TCLTK_LIBS= ## Use TCLTK_CPPFLAGS for all '-I' options needed for finding the tcl.h ## and tk.h headers. ## TCLTK_CPPFLAGS= ## Browser default ## Default setting for the R_BROWSER env variable ## If unset configure searches in turn for (currently) ## firefox mozilla galeon opera xdg-open kfmclient gnome-moz-remote open ## and uses the full path. ## R_BROWSER= ## BLAS and LAPACK settings ## Use BLAS_LIBS for all '-L' and '-l' options needed for linking ## against an external BLAS implementation. ## BLAS_LIBS= ## Use LAPACK_LIBS for all '-L' and '-l' options needed for linking ## against an external LAPACK implementation. ## Note that (see R-admin) that our main intention is to allow a ## LAPACK-containing BLAS to be used, so this is rarely needed, and ## it is not used if the BLAS already contains LAPACK. LAPACK_LIBS=/opt/solstudio12.2/lib ## Make name. ## Set this if you want to use a make by another name. ## For example, if your GNU make is called 'gmake', use 'MAKE=gmake'. ## MAKE= ## Tar name ## Set this to prefer a tar which has the capability to automagically ## read compressed archives. The default is to choose 'gtar' or ## 'gnutar'(normally GNU tar) then 'tar'. ## Note that 'bsdtar' (from the libarchive project) is known to create ## archives in a non-POSIX format that untar() cannot read, ## so should be avoided. ## TAR= ## Library path ## This is be default created from libraries added to LIBS. ## Allow user to override. R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/opt/csw/gcc4/lib:/opt/csw/lib" READLINE_LIBS = /usr/local/lib USE_NLS = no AR_FLAGS=-crS lt_AR_FLAGS=-crS LIBICONV=/usr/local/lib So, here it is - all the revelent documentation on iconv. If I've missed anything please let me know. If you see where in the documentation I missed some cryptic clue on how to get iconv to work or where to put it or it's headers, also please let me know. One things for sure - you can't say I've not read the documentation! Roger -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/problems-with-iconv-tp4191177p4192313.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
