[ESS] R and LANGUAGE WAS: ESS question

[Sparapani, Rodney]

Enrico wrote:

>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

We are officially off-topic now, but I can't help myself ;o)
Enrico is spot on.  But, I don't understand this feature...

> Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE = "de")
> x+1
Fehler: Objekt 'x' nicht gefunden
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

Why in gods name is sessionInfo ignoring LANGUAGE?  

Rodney