[R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

[Uwe Ligges]

Pingping Zheng wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I think what Nan Lin wanted is "How to change the language used in R
> console by re-setting something within R?"
> 
> For a non-english user, sometime we prefer to set the system default
> language to a native one and use english in individual programs when
> we think necessary.
> 
> a) setting the envrionment variable LANGUAGE=en will make an impact
>      on the whole system, which has its side effects.
> b) changing language setup through control panel is telling people to throw
>      away their native windows system, let's all use English system.
> 
> Any better idea?

What about setting LANGUAGE in .Renviron?
See ?.Renviron

Uwe Ligges


> --------
> Pingping Zheng
> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> Fylde College
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster LA1 4YF
> UK
> 
> 
> Baoqiang Cao wrote:
> 
>>---- Original message ----
>>
>>
>>>Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:50:41 +0200
>>>From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>  
>>>Subject: Re: [R] East Asian language  
>>>To: Nan Lin <nlin at math.wustl.edu>
>>>Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>>
>>>Nan Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>I just installed R 2.1.1. The installation program
>>
>>automatically recognized 
>>
>>
>>>>my Windows XP was using Chinese language, so now my R
>>
>>console displays 
>>
>>
>>>>everything in Chinese. How can I still let R console
>>
>>display in English 
>>
>>
>>>>without modifying my Window XP language setup? Thank you so
>>
>>much!
>>
>>
>>>E.g. by setting the envrionment variable
>>> LANGUAGE=en
>>>
>>
>>Or, like what I did, change XP language setting back to
>>English from the control panel.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Uwe Ligges
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Best,
>>>>
>>>>Nan
>>>>
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