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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

LANGUAGE controls the language of message translations: see the R-admin 
manual, which incidentally also points out you should not expect to change 
that whilst R is running.

Second, your input dates are in English so you need English as the 
language for your as.Date command.  The following works for me

x <- as.Date(c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960"), "%d%b%Y")
Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "fr_CA")
plot(x, 1:4)

but you haven't told us your OS and the locale name will be 
OS-dependent (and so may the abbreviations).

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Lapointe, Pierre 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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