Error in DESCRIPTION meta-information

Question

I'm kind of new in package development in R and I'm not sure if this is a common error. I'm developing a new package which is available on GitHub: https://github.com/jroberayalas/ahnr. I'm using R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03) on a Mac with OS X Yosemite [platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)].

When I check the package, I get 1 error with the DESCRIPTION meta-information. It doesn't provide any meaningful details and I'm not sure what does this mean.

Below is the output that I get when I press CMD+Shift+E. What I find strange is that I think the package is checked twice: the first time it says checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK, and the second time it says checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR. I do not know if this is the way it should work. I must add that the GitHub repository is stored in my Google Drive folder for storage in the cloud, so I'm not sure if this may cause the error.

During the initialization - Warning messages:
1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 
2: Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using "C" 
3: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 
4: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 
5: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" 
Updating ahnr documentation
Loading ahnr
Setting env vars ---------------------------------------------------------------
CFLAGS  : -Wall -pedantic
CXXFLAGS: -Wall -pedantic
Building ahnr ------------------------------------------------------------------
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ  \ 
--no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD build '/R/ahnr' --no-resave-data --no-manual 

During the initialization - Warning messages:
1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 
2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 
3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 
4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" 
* checking for file '/R/ahnr/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'ahnr':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'ahnr_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz'

Setting env vars ---------------------------------------------------------------
_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ : FALSE
_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_: FALSE
Checking ahnr ------------------------------------------------------------------
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ  \ 
--no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD check  \ 
'/var/folders/d0/h1123zw10cl569yx765cpxp00000gn/T//RtmpvxgS8q/ahnr_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz'  \ 
--as-cran --timings --no-manual 

During the initialization - Warning messages:
1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 
2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 
3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 
4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" 
* using log directory '/R/ahnr.Rcheck'
* using R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
* using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
* using session charset: ASCII
* using options '--no-manual --as-cran'
* checking for file 'ahnr/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* this is package 'ahnr' version '0.0.0.9000'
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... OK
* checking if this is a source package ... OK
* checking if there is a namespace ... OK
* checking for executable files ... OK
* checking for hidden files and directories ... OK
* checking for portable file names ... OK
* checking for sufficient/correct file permissions ... OK
* checking whether package 'ahnr' can be installed ... OK
* checking installed package size ... OK
* checking package directory ... OK
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
During the initialization - Warning messages:
1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 
2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 
3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 
4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" 
* DONE
Status: 1 ERROR
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
During the initialization - Warning messages:
1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 
2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 
3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 
4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" 

See
  '/R/ahnr.Rcheck/00check.log'
for details.

R CMD check results
1 error  | 0 warnings | 0 notes

R CMD check succeeded

My DESCRIPTION file is very simple:

Package: ahnr
Title: R implementation of the Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks
Version: 0.0.0.9000
Authors@R: person("Jose", "Ayala", email = "#####@##.#", role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: This packages implements the algorithm to create artificial hydrocarbon
    networks for data modelling.
Depends:
    R (>= 3.3.0)
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports:
    matrixcalc,
    pracma
Suggests:
    testthat
RoxygenNote: 5.0.1
URL: https://github.com/jroberayalas/ahnr
BugReports: https://github.com/jroberayalas/ahnr/issues

Any help is greatly appreciated!

jroberayalas · Accepted Answer

Thanks to @DKangeyan, it seems that the problem was related to the LOCALE features within R. I follow the instructions here and here, and that solved the problem.

Error in DESCRIPTION meta-information

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