[Rd] Testing for English locale

[Simon Urbanek]

On Aug 1, 2005, at 10:20 AM, John Fox wrote:

> Is there a platform-independent way to test whether R is running in  
> an English locale?

I suppose the following should work:

Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")=="C" || length(grep("^en",Sys.getlocale 
("LC_CTYPE"),TRUE))>0

Basically unix platforms will have "C" or "en_..."; Windows has  
"English...". You could make the check more strict depending on the  
platform if desired ..

Cheers,
Simon