[R] Month names

[Prof Brian Ripley]

As far as I know the original solution uses the current locale, and mine 
is just a much-simplified version of the same underlying call.

On 24 May 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> "Roger" == Roger D Peng <rpeng at jhsph.edu>
> > >>>>>     on Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:09 -0400 writes:
> > 
> >     Roger> How about `month.name'?
> > 
> > English only.
> > 
> > Note that he got the names in Danish (I think)
> > Martin
> 
> Yep. Notice, however, that even with Brian's solution, you do need to
> set the locale first:

Just as you did with the original code, which gives English names on my 
machine.

> > format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
>  [1] "January"   "February"  "March"     "April"     "May"       "June"
>  [7] "July"      "August"    "September" "October"   "November"  "December"
> > Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME","da_DK") ;format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "da_DK"
>  [1] "januar"    "februar"   "marts"     "april"     "maj"       "juni"
>  [7] "juli"      "august"    "september" "oktober"   "november"  "december"

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