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
A lot of time has gone by, but I recently had the same problem and the fix was:
brew remove aspell
brew install aspell --lang=en
I should have paid more careful attention when this flew by in the original brew install:
Dictionaries are not automatically installed, please specify the languages for which you want dictionaries to be installed with the --lang option, e.g: % brew install aspell --lang=en,es
For the following languages aspell dictionaries are available: af, am, ar, ast, az, be, bg, bn, br, ca, cs, csb, cy, da, de, de_alt, el, en, eo, es, et, fa, fi, fo, fr, fy, ga, gd, gl, grc, gu, gv, he, hi, hil, hr, hsb, hu, hy, ia, id, is, it, kn, ku, ky, la, lt, lv, mg, mi, mk, ml, mn, mr, ms, mt, nb, nds, nl, nn, ny, or, pa, pl, pt_BR, pt_PT, qu, ro, ru, rw, sc, sk, sl, sr, sv, sw, ta, te, tet, tk, tl, tn, tr, uk, uz, vi, wa, yi, zu