[R] Change the language of the labels in a graph

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This works for me on my Windows XP system:

Sys.putenv("LANGUAGE"="FR"); Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","FR")


On 4/24/06, Lapointe, Pierre <Pierre.Lapointe at nbf.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do you change the language of the labels in a graph.  In this example, I
> want to get French labels by changing Sys.putenv.  I should get "Mai"
> instead of "May".
>
> Sys.putenv(LANGUAGE="fr")
> x <- as.Date(c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960"), "%d%b%Y")
> y <-1:4
> plot(x,y)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre Lapointe
>
>
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