[ESS] ESS question

[Enrico Schumann]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Michael Wolf <michael.wolf at econ.uzh.ch> writes:

> On 12 Feb 2014, at 02:05, Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 01:51 +0800, Michael Wolf wrote:
>> 
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] C
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>> 
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] compiler_3.0.2 tools_3.0.2   
>>> 
>>> “locale” in a terminal window yields the following:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Air:~$ locale
>>> LANG=
>>> LC_COLLATE="C"
>>> LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
>>> LC_MESSAGES="C"
>>> LC_MONETARY="C"
>>> LC_NUMERIC="C"
>>> LC_TIME="C"
>>> LC_ALL=
>>> 
>>> Mac OS X is the very latest version, that is, 10.9.1.
>>> 
>>> I’ll be happy to upgrade ESS to version 13.09-1 and will let you
> know.
>>> 
>>> It’s just a mystery to me where this German thing popped up, since
> I
>>> have everything running in English.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Michael
>> 
>> Hi Michael:
>> 
>> I don't see anything obviously wrong.  However, I have very little
>> experience outside of the LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 setting.  Hopefully,
>> upgrading will just fix it.  Make sure that you keep ess-help in
> your
>> replies for posterity.
>> 
>> Rodney
>> 
>
> Hi Rodney,
>
> I upgraded to ESS 13.09-1 and (just in case) also set the locale to
> en_US.ISO8859-1 explicitly before starting R.
> But still the same problem.
>
> Oh well, I actually speak German. Maybe ESS is trying to tell me
> something and I should just accept it.
>
> Many thanks again,
> Michael
>

Hi Michael,

I did not follow this discussion closely, but do you get the
same behaviour when you run R in a shell (ie, outside
Emacs/ESS)?

IIRC, R's messages preferably use a language specified in an
environment variable LANGUAGE.  Is it set on your computer?
On my system (in ESS, but also in a shell):

  > Sys.getenv("LANGUAGE")
  [1] "en_GB:en"
  > 1+x
  Error: object 'x' not found
  > Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE = "de")
  > 1+x
  Fehler: Objekt 'x' nicht gefunden

Should the behaviour be R-related (and not ESS-specific),
perhaps you find answers here:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Internationalization

I have ess-version: 13.09-2 [<unknown>] (the SVN-version).
    
  > sessionInfo()
  R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
  Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
  
  locale:
   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8    
   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8   
   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
  [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
  
  attached base packages:
  [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
  
  loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] compiler_3.0.2 tools_3.0.2   


Regards,
        Enrico
  
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Enrico Schumann
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http://enricoschumann.net