[R] R gnome and lda: found the difference

[Martyn Plummer]

On 22-Feb-2002 Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> 
>> It's a locale problem.  I can reproduce this bug by relaunching my
>> GNOME session with the Spanish locale.  Numerical values are getting
>> mangled because, in Spanish, decimals are represented with "," and
>> (I'm guessing after a quick look at gnumeric) scientific notation
>> requires a "+" or "-" prefix.
> Is there a workarond, like stating a different locale at selecting
> gnome as the gui for R? I mean something like R --gui="gnome
> --locale=english" . Note that I actually launch R --gui="gnome"
> from a kde desktop.

LANG=en_GB R --gui=gnome

will work around it for now.

Martyn
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