[R] changing langage

[Peter Dalgaard]

Kurt Sys <kurt.sys at pandora.be> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a small, practical question, which untill now I couldn't
> solve (otherwhise I wouldn't mail it, right?) First of all, I'm
> talking about R 2.0.1 on a winxp system (using the default graphical
> interface being 'Rgui').
> When I make plots, using dates on the x-axis, it puts the labels in
> Dutch, which is nice (since it's my mother tongue) unless I want them
> in English... Is there a way to change this behaviour?  (Can I change
> the labels etc to English?)

This type of stuff works on Linux at least:

Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","da_DK") # or en_GB, or....
plot(date,....)


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