[R] changing langage [SOLVED]

[Kurt Sys]

To all that replied, thanks... I have a clue where I can change the settings.

tnx,
Kurt Sys


>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van
: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at myway.com]
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: woensdag
, januari
 12, 2005 05:26 PM
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: Re: [R] changing langage
>
>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?)
>
>
>Here is an example:
>
>R> Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "en-us")
>[1] "English_United States.1252"
>R> format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "January"   "February"  "March"     "April"     "May"       "June"     
> [7] "July"      "August"    "September" "October"   "November"  "December" 
>R> Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "du-be")
>[1] "Dutch_Netherlands.1252"
>R> format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "januari"   "februari"  "maart"     "april"     "mei"       "juni"     
> [7] "juli"      "augustus"  "september" "oktober"   "november"  "december"> 
>R> R.version.string # XP
>[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-01-02" 
>
>For more codes, google for:
>
>   Microsoft language codes 
>
>and look at the first result that is on a Microsoft site.
>
>This may or may not change your labels depending on precisely
>what you are doing.
>
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