[Rd] Cannot choose language for installing (PR#7971)

Mon Jun 27 08:46:19 CEST 2005

zhuangjc at ism.ac.jp wrote:

> Full_Name: Jiancang Zhuang
> Version: R 2.1.1
> OS: windows xp
> Submission from: (NULL) (133.58.102.66)
> 
> 
> I tried to install R.2.1.1 into my windows xp system. The system is Japanese
> version. But I set the unicode fonts to be Chinese to for some important
> programme. No matter how I choose the language during the installation, I always
> get an R of Japanese version.

This is not a bug, AFAICS.
During installation you choose the language of the setup program, not R 
itself. To "get" a non-Japanese version of R, you can define, e.g., an 
environment variable
   LANGUAGE=en

Uwe Ligges

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