[R] Set R 2.1.1. in English

[Patrick Giraudoux]

OK. ¨Perfectly clear.

This written for other listers:

Shortcut is the shortcuts ("alias") everybody use to launch applications 
(in French: "raccourci"), and for suckers (as I am): one just have to 
right-click the shortcut used to launch Rgui.exe, select properties 
("propriétés" in French) and add in the box target ("cible" in French) 
LANGUAGE=en to the path. In my case: C:\R\rw2011\bin\Rgui.exe. Thus, it 
makes C:\R\rw2011\bin\Rgui.exe LANGUAGE=en. Then click OK.

It works fantastic!!!!

Thanks a lot for this. It makes three weeks I was grumling everytime 
(often) I started R, and frustrated with the SDI mode...

Patrick Giraudoux



Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
>
>>> (whish R
>>> 2.1.1 could be parametrise 'English' even with a French Windows XP!!!!)
>>>
>>> If I understand you correctly, it can.  Just add LANGUAGE=en to the 
>>> shortcut.
>>
>
>> Wonderful hope but not sure to catch what you term "shortcut". I 
>> tried to add this command in C:\R\rw2011\etc\Rprofile, the .Rprofile 
>> in the folder my documents, but this cannot be understood from 
>> there...  which obviously shows that "shortcut" is not a general term 
>> for profiles! I have also
>
>
> See the rw-FAQ Q2.2.
> `Shortcut' is the standard name for files on Windows with extension .lnk.
>
> Another way is to add this to HOME/.Renviron: see the rw-FAQ Q2.17
>
>> unsuccessfully looked for a file "shortcut" in the rw2011 folder. I 
>> also tried and went through the R-help archive. There were some 
>> exchanges on this subject and Asian languages some weeks ago but what 
>> I have tried and adapt on this basis did not work.
>>
>> The objective would be to have R in  English (thus additionnally 
>> allowing MDI mode with R-WinEdt, which is not the case with any other 
>> language) and to keep Windows XP and other applications in the 
>> foreign (= French, here) language.
>>
>> Thanks for any further hint,
>>
>> Patrick Giraudoux
>>
>>
>>
>