[R] Help, my RGui is speaking French!

[Uwe Ligges]

Grathwohl, Dominik, LAUSANNE, NRC-BAS wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
> 
> First of all I have nothing against the French language!
> But now my problem, yesterday I installed R 2.1.1
> and I had to experience that my RGui is speaking French.
> My windows locals is French (Switzerland).
> I'm used to English and I want to reset my RGui to English.
> I was seeking for the solution in the archives,
> however not successfully.
> By the way the searchable archives via:
> http://www.r-project.org/, Mailing Lists, R-help, web-interface, searchable achieves,
> did not work: http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/
> Also I was seeking in the FAQ's 
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html
> and
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/rw-FAQ.html
> and could not find the solution.
> I'm sure that lots of people have queried already 
> and that the solution is already written down somewhere.
> However I cant find it.
> Could somebody give me a hint?


For example, read the most recent R Newsletter on localization of R.
As one solution, set the environment variable
  LANGUAGE=en

Uwe Ligges



> Kind regards,
> 
> Dominik
> 
> 
> 
> My system:
> 
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    2              
> minor    1.1            
> year     2005           
> month    06             
> day      20             
> language R          
> 
> 
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