working on a Macbook pro with OS 10.6. I've recently installed the package Aspell with the R package manager and it appears the install went just fine (no install errors). but when I try to use aspell I get the following error,
> aspell("love")
Error in getSpeller() :
No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".
I also tried
> aspell("love", program = "/usr/local/bin/aspell")
I also installed aspell and hunspell seperately using GitHubs homebrew. When I did install aspell with homebrew I used
brew install aspell --lang=en_US
Is there somewhere I search on my mac to double check that the en_US language was installed? And if I do find that en_US is there, are there any suggestions as to why R is not finding it?
I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to installation subtleties from sources files. Any help would be much appreciated.
Answer
As shown at the bottom of the aspell formula, you can use a --with-lang-#{name} option. In my case, I wanted to install multiple dictionaries: de, en & pl. I did that with this command:
brew install aspell --with-lang-de --with-lang-en --with-lang-pl
To view all available install options use brew info aspell (Thanks Andrew)
The --lang option mentioned in this thread with --lang=de,en,pl didn't work for me.