[ESS] ESS question

[Michael Wolf]

Hi Enrico,

Thanks a bunch, this solved my problem!

I got the same behavior indeed when starting R in a shell, be it an X11 shell or a Terminal shell in Mac OS X.
(Though I got the English behavior when starting R as a Mac application, which is very strange, at least to me.)

Using Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE = “en”) has R speaking to me entirely in English now.

Cheers,
Michael

On 12 Feb 2014, at 16:54, Enrico Schumann <es at enricoschumann.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Enrico Schumann
> Lucerne, Switzerland
> http://enricoschumann.net